Mississippi Science FB.1.4
The Standard
- FB.1
- Students will relate the importance of significant historical biological experiments and their impact of these on research, development, and society.
Enrichment: Research, analyze, explain, and communicate the influence of society, including cultural components, on the direction and progress of science and technology (e.g., medical treatments, emerging viruses, antibiotic resistance, vaccinations and re-emergent diseases, alternative energy development, and/or biomimicry.
2026 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Science · History of Biology and Impacts on Society
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What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students investigate how patient demand, farming practices, and access to care influence antibiotic research. They use sources to explain how a social factor can change treatment or research, then share their findings.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain how antibiotic use in clinics or farms selects for resistant bacteria and can change research priorities. They support the explanation with evidence and distinguish that evidence from an opinion.
Common Misconceptions
- Some students think antibiotics make individual bacteria decide to become resistant, rather than selecting resistant bacteria already present. Others assume research follows only lab discoveries, ignoring patient demand, drug costs, and access to care.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: A town's clinics often prescribe antibiotics for viral colds, and resistant bacterial infections are becoming more common. How could patient expectations affect prescribing, and what might scientists study next?
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Use ten paper bacteria, two labeled resistant, to model survival after antibiotics; connect repeated prescriptions and farm use to demand for new drugs.
Read a CDC antibiotic resistance fact sheet and a mock patient request for antibiotics; write how public expectations can shape prescribing and research.
Sort four cards, patient demand, farm use, drug prices, and lab discovery, into social pressures or scientific findings; explain one link.
Inspect a pharmacy handout on antibiotics; explain how taking them for viral colds can raise resistance and increase demand for new treatments.
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