LPN - NSES Connections

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Ninth - Twelfth Grades

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Grades: 5-8

Objective 1: Develop an understanding about scientific inquiry (content standard A)

Proficiencies: Students will...

• Identify a central question that can be answered through the experimental leaf pack investigation
• Conduct a scientific investigation
  • Differentiate between a control and a variable
  • Make accurate measurements and observations
• Develop explanations and descriptions using evidence collected
  • Differentiate explanation from description
  • Summarize data
  • Develop explanations from the evidence collected
• Present and communicate their data and explanations

Objective 2: Develop an understanding about populations and ecosystems (content standard C)

Proficiencies: Students will...

• Identify specific populations and the physical factors with which they interact to characterize stream ecosystems
• Construct a food web by identifying the relationship among producers, consumers, and decomposers in an ecosystem
• Identify the flow of energy through an ecosystem
• Describe how animals have adapted to LP's

Objective 3: Develop a connection between populations, resources, and environments (content standard F)

Proficiencies: Students will...

• Use data from the LPN to interpret how causes of environmental degradation can vary from region to region
• Use the LPN to identify how human activities can affect the environment
• Understand how personal and social decisions are made based on perceptions of benefits and risks

Objective 4: Understand the nature of science (content standard F)

Proficiencies: Students will...

• Communicate their LPN results to understand that science is a human endeavor and although scientists work in different ways, all communicate extensively with others
• Analyze and interpret their data, the data of other participants, and background information to understand that although our understanding of the world around us is based on experimental and observational confirmation

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Grades 9-12

Objective 1: Develop an understanding about scientific inquiry. (content standard A)

Proficiencies: Students will...

• Conduct a scientific investigation
• Differentiate between variables and controlled experiments
• Identify questions and concepts that guide scientific investigation?
• Construct an argument for their proposed explanations

Objective 2: Understand that biological classifications are based on how organisms are related (content standard C)

Proficiencies: Students will...

• Classify macroinvertebrates

Objective 3: Understand the interdependence of organisms (content standard C)

Proficiencies: Students will...

• Demonstrate how energy flows through ecosystems from photosynthetic organism to decomposer
• Human beings live within the world's ecosystems and can modify these systems

Objective 4: Understand Science in Personal and social perspective (content standard F)

Proficiencies: Students will...

• Collect and analyze data to understand that humans have a major effect on other species
• Interpret data to understand that many factors influence environmental quality including natural and human factors

Objective 4: History and nature of science (content stanard G)

Proficiencies: Students will...

• Conduct a field-based study to develop an interest in science as a future career or hobby
• Communicate their results to their peers in a truthful manner
• Research current scientific literature to develop explanations and understand that all scientific ideas depend on experimental and observational confirmation which may change as new evidence becomes available

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