Lesson Overview
Students will be able to:
- predict how changes in a landscape couldripple through a food web
-understand why it's important for people to consider the food web of a piece of land before they alter it
Day 9: Environmental Impact Statements- Written assessment
Objectives
Students write predictions of how a proposed change to their study site would affect the organisms that live there.
Time:
40-60 min
Setting:
Classroom
Materials
For the class:
- several copies of Who Eats Who guide
- other resource books (see "Resource List")
For each student:
- copy of "Challenge Sheet"
- copy of "Scoring Sheet"
- copy of "Portfolio Cover Sheet" (see Eco-Inquiry's Multiple Forms of Assessment")
Procedure
See Lesson Resources below for further details.
Lesson Resources
- Environmental Impact Statement- Written Assessment (pdf, 395 KB)
- Eco Inquiry's Multiple Forms of Assessment- contains "Portfolio Cover Sheet" (pdf, 1 MB)
- Who Eats What Guide (pdf, 2 MB)
NYS Standards
MST 4- Physical setting, living environment and nature of science
ELA 3- Language for critical analysis and evaluation
ELA 4 - Language for communication and social interaction with a wide variety of people
Benchmarks for Science Literacy
5D Interdependence of Life
5E Flow of Matter and Energy
7D Social Trade-offs
7E Political and Economic Systems
7F Social Conflict
12D Communication Skills
12E Critical-Response Skills