Alabama Social Studies SS24.WH.18c
The Standard
- SS24.WH.18
- Describe the interrelationship between people and the environment in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Explain problems and opportunities involving science, technology, and worldwide communication, including the Internet, in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain how new science and technology changed life from the late 1900s to the early 2000s. They give examples of how the Internet helped people share information across borders and caused problems.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain how an online disease alert helped doctors respond across countries. They can also explain a limit, such as unreliable Internet access or a false report spreading quickly.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may assume everyone had Internet access by 2000. They may also assume that information shared quickly was accurate, or confuse a scientific discovery with the tool used to share it.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: In 2003, an online disease alert reaches doctors in three countries. Explain one opportunity and one problem it could create, and name who is affected.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
On a printed world map, students draw the route of a 2003 online disease alert and circle places with limited Internet access.
Ask, 'Should a health agency post an unverified outbreak report online?' Have students write one benefit and one risk.
Have pairs sort cards labeled email, vaccine research, false rumor, and limited Internet access into opportunities, problems, or both.
Give students a printed 2003 SARS web alert; ask who could act on it quickly and who might not see it.
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Related Standards
- SS24.WH.18
Describe the interrelationship between people and the environment in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
- SS24.CWI.10a
Evaluate the positive and negative impacts of scientific and technological changes on society and on the environment.
- SS24.5.17
State and defend a position regarding the benefits and drawbacks of technological advancements in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
- SS24.CWI.10
Explain how scientific and technological changes impact the worldwide economy and the process of globalization.
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