TOPIC V: ECOLOGY - Human Impact on Environment ESSENTIAL CONTENT OBJECTIVES INSTRUCTIONAL TOOLS Cost and Benefits of Renewable and Nonrenewable Chapter 6 Identify possible environmental impacts resulting Core Text Book: Resources (17.11) from the use of a nonrenewable resource. (ALD) Renewable (e.g. Wind, Solar) Evaluate possible environmental impacts resulting from Vocabulary: Non-Renewable (e. g. Fossil Fuels) the use of renewable and/or nonrenewable resources. acid rain, agriculture, bioaccumulation, biodiversity, Relate how the actions of humans may impact biomagnification, conservation, deforestation, Sustainability and Environmental Policy (17.11, 17.13) environmental systems and/or affect sustainability. desertification, erosion, fossil fuels, global warming, Sustainability (ALD) invasive species, nonrenewable resource, ozone layer, Ecological Footprint Evaluate the impact that humans have had on Earth, renewable resource, sustainability, urbanization, water Human Health such as deforestation, urbanization, desertification, pollution Predicting the impact of individual on a system erosion, air and water quality, changing the flow of Environmental Systems water. Technology: (see p.2) Soil Pollution: Agriculture, Eutrophication, Identify positive and/or negative consequences that Art in Motion: Deforestation, Erosion result from a reduction in biodiversity. Data Analysis: Water Pollution: Acid Rain Bio magnification Identify ways in which a scientific claim, such as global Art Review: Air Pollution: Greenhouse Gases, Global Warming warming, is evaluated (e.g., through scientific Visual Analogy: Maintaining Biodiversity: Importance, Causes argumentation, critical and logical thinking, and/or Biology Corner: consideration of alternative explanations). Western Washington University: Identify an instance from the history of environmental HippoCampus Biology: science in which scientific knowledge has changed when HippoCampus Biology: new evidence or new interpretations are encountered. HippoCampus Biology: HippoCampus Biology: HippoCampus Biology: Bozeman Podcast: Bozeman Podcast: SC.912.L.17.11 SC.912.L.17.20
TOPIC V: ECOLOGY - Human Impact on Environment ESSENTIAL CONTENT OBJECTIVES INSTRUCTIONAL TOOLS Cost and Benefits of Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources (17.11) Renewable (e.g. Wind, Solar) Non-Renewable (e. g. Fossil Fuels) Sustainability and Environmental Policy (17.11, 17.13) Sustainability Ecological Footprint Human Health Predicting the impact of individual on a system Environmental Systems Soil Pollution: Agriculture, Eutrophication, Deforestation, Erosion Water Pollution: Acid Rain Bio magnification Air Pollution: Greenhouse Gases, Global Warming Maintaining Biodiversity: Importance, Causes Identify possible environmental impacts resulting from the use of a nonrenewable resource. (ALD) Evaluate possible environmental impacts resulting from the use of renewable and/or nonrenewable resources. Relate how the actions of humans may impact environmental systems and/or affect sustainability. (ALD) Evaluate the impact that humans have had on Earth, such as deforestation, urbanization, desertification, erosion, air and water quality, changing the flow of water. Identify positive and/or negative consequences that result from a reduction in biodiversity. Identify ways in which a scientific claim, such as global warming, is evaluated (e.g., through scientific argumentation, critical and logical thinking, and/or consideration of alternative explanations). Identify an instance from the history of environmental science in which scientific knowledge has changed when new evidence or new interpretations are encountered. Core Text Book: Chapter 6 Vocabulary: acid rain, agriculture, bioaccumulation, biodiversity, biomagnification, conservation, deforestation, desertification, erosion, fossil fuels, global warming, invasive species, nonrenewable resource, ozone layer, renewable resource, sustainability, urbanization, water pollution Technology: (see p.2) Art in Motion: Data Analysis: Art Review: Visual Analogy: Biology Corner: Western Washington University: HippoCampus Biology: HippoCampus Biology: HippoCampus Biology: HippoCampus Biology: HippoCampus Biology: Bozeman Podcast: Bozeman Podcast: SC.912.L.17.11 SC.912.L.17.20
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