Personal, social and ethical issues should be the focal points of science and technological education at all levels of education.
On personal needs of the student, science teaching should develop (i) scientific knowledge, (ii) scientific process skills, and (iii) scientific attitudes and values.
Scientific knowledge - facts, concepts, definitions, laws and theories etc.
Scientific skills- process skills (observing, classifying, identifying, inferring, formulating etc and manipulative skills ( designing experiments, determining procedures, controlling variables, etc).
Scientific attitudes and values - critical mindedness, open mindedness, looks for evidence through an empirical approach, honesty, objectivity, willingness to change/flexible, suspended judgement, questioning attitudes, strong curiousity etc.
Science and technology is part of the society in which it exists. The goals and values of a society directly influence the existence and development of science and technology.
In other words science teaching should for examples; make students aware of good health practices, solve contemporary social and environmental problems (drugs abuses, food additives, ecological problems, waste of energy, water pollution, etc).
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