Middle school year 3 · eighth unit
Science and My Future
Twenty-two units over three years. The last has nothing new to memorise. Look at what work the science you have learned leads to, how it has changed the world, and where it meets the path you want to take.
If you like science, is scientist the only choice?
A board to arrangeNot at all. Start from what you enjoy. Drag one of the pictures below and hand it to the two students.
Jobs that existed when Grandma was young and are gone now
A board to adjustWhen new technology arrives, work changes too. Drag the gold handle back and forth through the years.
What did three years teach?
A board to adjustThe twenty-three units are gathered into five groups. Drag the magnifying glass over a circle.
What to take away from this unit
- Careers in science are not only for scientists in laboratories. Medicine, engineering, the environment, information, teaching, even the arts: a great many kinds of work use scientific knowledge and ways of inquiry.
- As science and technology advance, society and work change too. Some jobs vanish and new ones appear. So the ability to keep learning matters more than any one piece of knowledge.
- The abilities built by learning science serve on any path: finding problems, gathering and weighing evidence, solving things with others, and explaining results clearly.
- Middle school science groups into motion and energy, matter, life, Earth and space, and science and society. They are not separate things but one world seen from several sides.