Standards redux

As I posted earlier, I was thankfully able to find a standard that emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of environmental science. My project addresses this by explaining the environmental nature of the local versus organic debate, and also the health, and economic nature of the debate. In order for environmental issues to be addressed, it is important for students to understand that other factors will also necessarily come into play.

A little something about Standards

I'm not a teacher, and I'm not a school media specialist, so I don't really have a working background with standards. I'm not going to pretend that I'm a fan of this "standards" thing. It seems like every time somebody reinvents the wheel, more time is spent justifying a job through documentation and less time is spent actually doing the job. For many years I worked in a homeless shelter as a case manager, and that certainly become the case with that job over the years. Eventually I was spending so much time writing about what I was doing that I no longer had time to do everything that needed to be done. Where's the logic?

Now that I've vented - I was able to find a standard that I think my project addresses well. I'm using Indiana's high school standard for Environmental Science, Advanced. This standard can be downloaded as a pdf file from the Project 1 Links list at the right. It works well for my project because my project is somewhat interdisciplinary, and one of the goals of this standard is to show students the interdependence of science, math, and technology. More on addressing this standard later!