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GlobalEd 2 - National Science Standards

Although not all teachers will participate in the GlobalEd 2 simulation during the coming academic year, they will nonetheless receive professional development in content and methods in line with all of the thematic goals set forth by the National Committee on Science Education Standards and Assessment, National Research Council. For those that do participate in GlobalEd 2, all of these thematic goals will be met as seen below:

• Science as inquiry - Through the GlobalEd 2 simulation, students engage in the processes of scientific inquiry as they participate in negotiated efforts to solve a global world crisis. Students are required to think critically and logically about the relationship between evidence and explanation, ask questions, construct and analyze alternative explanations, and communicate scientific arguments to their student counterparts.
• Science and technology - Through GlobalEd 2, students explore and discuss the interconnectedness of science, the natural world, and technology, the man-made world. They develop their decision-making abilities when engaged in investigations and debates regarding the ways in which technology may be beneficial for the environment, but also, the ways in which it may be harmful. Students propose a solution to a problem and weigh its risks and benefits through a collaborative discussion and deliberation that they partake in with other students participating in the simulation.
• Content science (physical, life, and earth and space science)- Through GlobalEd 2, students engage with important science content, related to the simulation that they are in. Examples of science content that is covered through the different versions of the simulation are the life cycle, the hydrologic cycles, genetics, and the environmental cycles.
• Science in personal and social perspectives - Given the constructivist learning environment of the GlobalEd 2 simulation and the collaborative nature of the project, students are able to not only develop their decision-making skills individually, but also as citizens of a larger community.
• History and nature of science - Through GlobalEd 2 students have an opportunity to discover how the role of science has historically helped to influence the policies of the countries they represent and shaped the cultures in each of these world populations.
• Unifying Concepts and Processes - Through GlobalEd 2, students gain insight into how scientific systems operate. More specifically, they develop a better understanding of the interrelated nature of the various aspects of a system (S), such as the hydrologic cycle for example, and gain awareness of the domino effect that could impact the entire world ecology, if any single aspect of it is adversely affected.

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