What does it mean to be an environmental stewardship?
Global Citizenship
Students will learn about the qualities of an environmental steward through participation in ecological surveys, clean ups, and a variety of other introductory environmental concepts.
Responsibility
Students will take responsibility for doing their part with respect to conservation of natural spaces and the organisms that inhabit them as well as cleaning up their local environment.
What types of life can be found in my local environment?
What are some examples of how I can be an environmental steward?
How am I connected to all other life in my local environment?
Students should be able to accurately identify local trees and wildflowers in their environment by using a dichotomous key.
Students should be able to create their own dichotomous key for a category of items so as to show that they know how to use a dichotomous key.
Students should be able to plan and implement a project where they build an ecological item, lead an ecological clean up, or research something in their environment so as to have a direct impact on the local community.
Skills:
Written and Oral Discourse - Students will communicate ideas and arguments through writing and through speech
Analysis of Graphs - Students will be able to make observations about various charts and graphs in order to state the main idea of the data.
Presentation Skills - Students will collaborate and present their Regenerative Farm Projects based on specified criteria.
Note taking - Students write key ideas in their lab notebooks so that they may use the resource on labs and other assessments.
Differentiation:
Explicit instruction of expectations for answering questions in complete sentences (TTQA) on formative and summative assessments.
Explicit instruction on lab notebook setup and maintenance throughout the course.
Explicit instruction on reading articles, lab activity instructions, and textbook passages (Bold Words, Headings, Interpreting Diagrams and Charts).
Providing a variety of tools to help students identify different specimens
HS-PS1-7. Use mathematical representations to support the claim that atoms, and therefore mass, are conserved during a chemical reaction.
Resources
Textbook - Living in the Environment G.Tyler Miller and Scott Spoolman
Textbook - Agriscience Fundamentals & Applications L. DeVere Burton
Food Inc. (Documentary)
Farming Simulator
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