How healthy is our stream for freshwater organisms and how do our actions on land potentially impact the stream and the organisms that live in it?
This curriculum builds towards several performance expectations, integrates DCI’s from life and earth science, several crosscutting concepts, and many scientific and engineering practices. Students actively engage in investigation to figure out the health of a stream or another freshwater body as they develop usable knowledge of the phenomenon. Throughout the unit, students are engaged in practices such as asking questions, designing and carrying out investigations, analyzing and interpreting data, and developing dynamic computer-based models and constructing scientific explanations. The unit also focuses on students developing usable knowledge of several crosscutting concepts -- cause and effect relationships, patterns, stability and change, and systems.
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