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Post-Visit Activities : Helping Watersheds
Standards Supported

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Grade Level

Standards

6th Grade

6-1.4

7th Grade

7-1.2, 7-1.6, 7-4.3, 7-4.5, 7-4.6

8th Grade

8-1.4, 8-3.9

* Bold standards are the main standards addressed in this activity.

Sixth Grade Indicators

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).

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Seventh Grade Indicators

7-1.2

Generate questions that can be answered through scientific investigation.

7-1.6

Critique a conclusion drawn from a scientific investigation.

7-4.3

Explain the interaction among changes in the environment due to natural hazards (including landslides, wildfires, and floods), changes in populations, and limiting factors (including climate and the availability of food and water, space, and shelter).

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.

7-4.6

Classify resources as renewable or nonrenewable and explain the implications of their depletion and the importance of conservation.

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Eighth Grade Indicators

8-1.4

Generate questions for further study on the basis of prior investigations.  

8-3.9 Summarize the factors, both natural and man-made, that can contribute to the extinction of a species.