Image Processing
Correlations to Project 2061 Benchmarks in Science Education
The Project 2061 Benchmarks in Science Education is a report,
originally published in 1993 by the American Association for the
Advancement of Science (AAAS), that listed what students should know about
scientific literacy. The report listed facts and concepts about science
and the scientific process that all students should know at different
grade levels.
The report is divided and subdivided into different content areas.
Within each subarea, the report lists benchmarks for students completing
grade 2, grade 5, grade 8, and grade 12. The table below shows which
benchmarks are met by which sections of the Image Processing project.
The Image Processing unit meets the following objectives in the Project
2061 Science Standards:
IC8-6, IIIA5-2, IVA5-2, IVA12-3, IVF8-1, IVF8-5.
Standards
IC8-6. Computers have
become invaluable in science because they speed up and extend people's
ability to collect, store, compile, and analyze data, prepare research
reports, and share data and ideas with investigators all over the
world.
IIIA5-2. Technology
enables scientists and others to observe things that are too small or
too far away to be seen without them and to study the motion of
objects that are moving very rapidly or are hardly moving at all
IVA5-2. Telescopes
magnify the appearance of some distant objects in the sky, including
the moon and the planets. The number of stars that can be seen through
telescopes is dramatically greater than can be seen by the unaided
eye.
IVA12-3. Increasingly
sophisticated technology is used to learn about the universe. Visual,
radio, and x-ray telescopes collect information from across the entire
spectrum of electromagnetic waves; computers handle an avalanche of
data and increasingly complicated computations to interpret them;
space probes send back data and materials from the remote parts of the
solar system; and accelerators give subatomic particles energies that
simulate conditions in the stars and in the early history of the
universe before stars formed.
IVF8-1. Light from
the sun is made up of a mixture of many different colors of light,
even though to the eye the light looks almost white. Other things that
give off or reflect light have a different mix of colors
IVF8-5. Human eyes
respond to only a narrow range of wavelengths of electromagnetic
radiation—visible light. Differences of wavelength within that range
are perceived as differences in color.
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