TOPIC V: ECOLOGY Human Impact on Environment Pacing Date – Traditional 6 days 09-24-15 to 10-01-15 Block 3 days 09-24-15 to 10-01-15 ESSENTIAL CONTENT OBJECTIVES INSTRUCTIONAL TOOLS Cost and Benefits of Renewable and Nonrenewable Analyze and evaluate possible environmental Core Text Book: Chapter 6 Resources (17.11) impacts resulting from the use of renewable and Renewable (e.g. Wind, nonrenewable resources. (ALD) Vocabulary: Non-Renewable (e. g. Fossil Fuels) Evaluate possible environmental impacts resulting from acid rain, agriculture, bioaccumulation, biodiversity, the use of renewable and/or nonrenewable resources. biomagnification, conservation, deforestation, Sustainability and Environmental Systems (17.11, Predict how the actions of humans may impact desertification, erosion, fossil fuels, global warming, 17.13) environmental systems and affect sustainability in invasive species, nonrenewable resource, ozone layer, Sustainability the short and long term. (ALD) renewable resource, sustainability, Ecological Footprint Evaluate the impact that humans have had on Earth, urbanization, water pollution Human Health such as deforestation, urbanization, desertification, Predicting the impact of individual on a system erosion, air and water quality, changing the flow of Technology: Large scale impacts (waste spills, oil spills, water. Bozeman Podcast: greenhouse gases, ozone depletion, surface Identify positive and/or negative consequences that Bozeman Podcast: and ground water pollution) result from a reduction in biodiversity. Biology Corner: Environmental Systems Identify ways in which a scientific claim, such as global Western Washington University: Soil Pollution: Agriculture, Eutrophication, warming, is evaluated (e.g., through scientific (search your topic) Deforestation, Erosion argumentation, critical and logical thinking, and/or Water Pollution: Acid Rain Biomagnification consideration of alternative explanations). Air Pollution: Greenhouse Gases, Global Warming Identify an instance from the history of environmental Maintaining Biodiversity: Importance, Causes science in which scientific knowledge has changed Urbanization when new evidence or new interpretations are encountered. SC.912.L.17.11 SC.912.L.17.20
TOPIC V: ECOLOGY – Human Impact on Environment Pacing Date Traditional 6 days 09-24-15 to 10-01-15 Block 3 days 09-24-15 to 10-01-15 ESSENTIAL CONTENT OBJECTIVES INSTRUCTIONAL TOOLS Cost and Benefits of Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources (17.11) Renewable (e.g. Wind, Non-Renewable (e. g. Fossil Fuels) Sustainability and Environmental Systems (17.11, 17.13) Sustainability Ecological Footprint Human Health Predicting the impact of individual on a system Large scale impacts (waste spills, oil spills, greenhouse gases, ozone depletion, surface and ground water pollution) Environmental Systems Soil Pollution: Agriculture, Eutrophication, Deforestation, Erosion Water Pollution: Acid Rain Biomagnification Air Pollution: Greenhouse Gases, Global Warming Maintaining Biodiversity: Importance, Causes Urbanization Analyze and evaluate possible environmental impacts resulting from the use of renewable and nonrenewable resources. (ALD) Evaluate possible environmental impacts resulting from the use of renewable and/or nonrenewable resources. Predict how the actions of humans may impact environmental systems and affect sustainability in the short and long term. (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: Bozeman Podcast: Bozeman Podcast: Biology Corner: Western Washington University: (search your topic) SC.912.L.17.11 SC.912.L.17.20
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