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Overview
Students will investigate the
Earth’s surface resources and the environmental
interactions that take place in the world.
Learning Expectations:
Understand Earth’s surface resources.
Understand the
molecular importance of the interdependence of the flow of matter
and energy in ecosystems
- Design and conduct scientific investigations.
- Use appropriate tools and techniques to gather, analyze,
and interpret data.
- Develop descriptions, explanations, predictions, and models
using evidence.
- Think critically and logically to make connections between
evidence and explanations.
- Know that raw materials come from natural resources.
- Examine the renewability of resources and the role of recycling.
- Describe how human actions affect the health of the environment.
- Communicate scientific procedures and explanations.
- Use mathematics in scientific inquiry.
- Understand that different kinds of questions suggest different
kinds of scientific investigations; current knowledge guides
scientific investigations; and mathematics and technology
are important scientific tools.
- Understand that scientific explanations emphasize evidence.
- Record and graph data concretely, pictorially, and symbolically
to discover relationships.
- Acquire the vocabulary associated with environmental science.
- Use scientific thinking processes to
conduct investigations and build explanations: observing,
communicating, organizing, relating and inferring.
- Work collaboratively and relate knowledge to new experiences.
- Understand science safety and follow safe practices.
Assessments:
- Lab experiments
- Performance assessments
- Reflective journals
- Teacher created assessments
- End of unit projects
- Rubrics
- Checklists
- Homework/Class work
- Teacher observations
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