Integrate biological knowledge to develop an informed response to a socio-scientific issue
This standard asks you to pick a real-world issue that involves biology and society (like vaccination, plastic pollution, or genetic engineering) and develop your own informed position on it using solid biological knowledge. You'll explain your position, suggest practical actions people could take, and justify your choices by examining the biology, weighing different viewpoints, and evaluating the quality of information sources.
You integrate biological knowledge and present a personal position with proposed actions, showing you understand the issue.
You integrate biological knowledge and explain why your chosen position and actions make sense, demonstrating reasoned thinking about the issue.
You integrate biological knowledge and justify your position and actions by analyzing and evaluating the biological evidence, weighing competing implications, and critically assessing the reliability and bias of your sources.
Standards typically taken alongside or after this one. Same subject, grouped by level.