Mississippi Science FSL.1.4
The Standard
- FSL.1
- Students will relate the importance of significant historical experiments and their impact on research and development.
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, antibiotic resistance, alternative energy development, and biomimicry).
2026 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Science · History of Science and Impacts on Society
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students investigate how beliefs, habits, and public needs affect which questions scientists study. They use sources to explain a possible link and share their findings in writing or aloud.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain how expectations about antibiotics may affect prescribing and make resistant infections a research priority. They cite evidence for each link and say what their sources do not prove.
Common Misconceptions
- Some students think antibiotics treat viral colds. Others think patients become resistant, rather than bacteria. They may assume a public concern caused a research decision without checking for evidence.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: 'Patients expect antibiotics for colds. A hospital announces a grant to study resistant bacteria.' Explain a possible link and name one piece of evidence needed to check it.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs four cards labeled patient requests, extra prescriptions, resistant infections, and research grants; have them order the cards and justify each arrow.
Ask students to write three sentences: How might beliefs about antibiotics for colds affect which treatments scientists study? Cite two source lines.
Play evidence match: teams pair clinic survey, prescription, and funding excerpts with claims, then mark any claim the excerpts cannot prove.
Show a CDC flyer about antibiotics for colds; ask which patient belief it challenges and how changing that belief might affect resistance research.
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