ABSTRACT
Chapter 5 amplifies this critical need by adding the science dimension. “Science” is no longer the learning of the fundamentals of physics, chemistry and biology. As important as these essentials continue to be, a student’s clear understanding of their direct relationship to weather and climate, water supply, sanitation and hygiene, health and medicine and organismic differentiation are the ABCs of understanding our immediate environments, their cultural impacts and our duty to maintain them through time. The “sciences,” both natural and social, have experienced a formidable process of change in these more complex, interlinked and globally changing environments. Science, technology and innovation are facets of knowledge more needed than ever before in human history, last but certainly not least, to sustain the human species.
