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How to implement engaging research, including mini-skills lessons, and professional resources
TARGETED LEARNING STYLES
TIME FRAME:

2 45-min. periods for research plus additional student time for completion of end product

 UNIT:

   Grade 9 Biology: Ecology

FOCUS:
Enduring Understanding or EssentialQuestion

  

How does a human-caused stress placed on the environment affect the life in a food web?

MSDE Voluntary State Curriculum: Science Standards/Core Learning
Goals

  

6.3.3 The student will evaluate the interrelationship between humans and land resources.

At least —

  • wetlands

  • soil conservation

  • mining

  • solid waste management

  • land use planning

  • human health

BCPS Science Curriculum Indicator

   19. Students will study selected human activities and technologies to explain their effects on global food webs. (Learning Goal 3.5)
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2A
1. Match resources to topic of interest or need.
3A
1. Students will use print resources efficiently and effectively.
3. Students will use computer/online/digital resources efficiently and effectively.
7. Use appropriate graphic organizers or note cards to record relevant information. 
8. Use own words to capture concepts and avoid plagiarism.
5A
2. Apply critical thinking and problem solving strategies.
6A
1. Make decisions to facilitate effective communication of ideas.

 National ScienceEducation Content Standards

   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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AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner

1.1.1 Follow an inquiry-based process in seeking knowledge in curricular subjects, and make the real-world connection for using this process in own life.
1.1.6 Read, view, and listen for information presented in any format (e.g. textual visual, media, digital) in order to make inferences and gather meaning.
2.1.1 Continue an inquiry-based research process by applying critical-thinking skills (analysis, synthesis, evaluation, organization) to information and knowledge in order to construct new understandings, draw conclusions, and create new knowledge.
2.1.2 Organize knowledge so that it is useful.
2.1.6 Use the writing process, media and visual literacy, and technology skills to create products that express new understandings.
3.1.1 Conclude an inquiry-based research process by sharing new understandings and reflecting on the learning.
3.1.6 Use information and technology ethically and responsibly.
4.1.8 Use creative and artistic formats to express personal learning.
National Technology Education Standards for Students (ISTE) 7. Routinely and efficiently use online information resources to meet needs for collaboration, research, publications, communications, and productivity. (4, 5, 6)

Last update: July 2009
Created July 2004 by Ann B. O'Neill and Ellen Montoya
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