Grade Level/Content Area/Unit:
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Grade 9 Biology
Aquatic Science: Human Impacts on Aquatic Ecosystems |
 Focus:
Enduring Understanding
or Essential Question |
How can human activities conserve and enhance aquatic ecosystems? |
 MSDE Voluntary State Curriculum:
Science Content Standards/
Core Learning Goals |
3.2.2 The student will conclude that cells exist within a narrow range of environmental conditions and changes to that environment, either naturally occurring or induced, may cause changes in the metabolic activity of the cell or organism.
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 National Content Standards for
Science
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The Interdependence of Organisms: Human beings live within the world's ecosystems. Increasingly, humans modify ecosystems as a result of population growth, technology, and consumption. Human destruction of habitats through direct harvesting, pollution, atmospheric changes, and other factors is threatening current global stability, and if not addressed, ecosystems will be irreversibly affected. |
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Standard 3: Technology productivity tools
Students use technology tools to enhance learning, increase productivity, and promote creativity.
Students use productivity tools to collaborate in constructing technology-enhanced models, prepare publications, and produce other creative works. Standard 4: Technology communications tools
Students use telecommunications to collaborate, publish, and interact with peers, experts, and other audiences.
Students use a variety of media and formats to communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences. Standard 5: Technology research tools
Students use technology to locate, evaluate, and collect information from a variety of sources.
Students use technology tools to process data and report results. Standard 6: Technology problem-solving and decision-making tools
Students use technology resources for solving problems and making informed decisions. |
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Standard 7 - Routinely and efficiently use online information resources to meet needs for collaboration, research, publications, communications, and productivity. (4, 5, 6) |
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Students Who Are Scientifically Literate:
- Have the knowledge and understanding of scientific concepts and processes required for participation in a Digital Age society.
- Have the ability to describe, explain, and predict natural phenomena.
- Are able to read with understanding articles about science in the popular press and to engage in social conversation about the validity of the conclusions.
- Can identify scientific issues underlying national and local decisions and express positions that are scientifically and technologically informed.
- Are able to evaluate the quality of scientific information on the basis of its source and the methods used to generate it.
- Have the capacity to pose and evaluate arguments based on evidence and to apply conclusions from such arguments appropriately
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Last update: July 2009
Created by:Jennie Springer, Baltimore County Public Schools
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