Pre-Visit Activities : Pollution : Standards Supported
Sixth - Eighth Grade Online Curriculum : Watersheds

Grade Level

Standards

6th Grade

6-1.2, 6-1.4, 6-4.2

7th Grade

7-1.2, 7-1.3, 7-1.4, 7-1.6, 7-4.5

8th Grade

8-1.1, 8-1.2, 8-1.3, 8-1.4, 8-1.5, 8-2.7
* Bold standards are the main standards addressed in this activity.

Sixth Grade Indicators

6-1.1

Use appropriate tools and instruments (including a spring scale, beam balance, barometer, and sling psychrometer) safely and accurately when conducting a controlled scientific investigation.

6-1.4 Use a technological design process to plan and produce a solution to a problem or a product (including identifying a problem, designing a solution or a product, implementing the design, and evaluating the solution or the product).
6-4.2

Summarize the interrelationships among the dynamic processes of the water cycle (including precipitation, evaporation, transpiration, condensation, surface-water flow, and groundwater flow).

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Seventh Grade Indicators

7-1.2

Generate questions that can be answered through scientific investigation
7-1.3 Explain the reasons for testing one independent variable at a time in a controlled scientific investigation.
7-1.4

Explain the importance that repeated trials and a well-chosen sample size have with regard to the validity of a controlled scientific investigation.
7-1.6

Critique a conclusion drawn from a scientific investigation.

7-4.5

Summarize how the location and movement of water on Earth’s surface through groundwater zones and surface-water drainage basins, called watersheds, are important to ecosystems and to human activities.

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Eighth Grade Indicators

8-1.1

Design a controlled scientific investigation.
8-1.2 Recognize the importance of a systematic process for safely and accurately conducting investigations.
8-1.3 Construct explanations and conclusions from interpretations of data obtained during a controlled scientific investigation.
8-1.4 Generate questions for further study on the basis of prior investigations
8-1.5

Explain the importance of and requirements for replication of scientific investigations.
8-2.7

Summarize the factors, both natural and man-made, that can contribute to the extinction of a species.