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Pre-Visit
Activities : Pollution
Standards Supported
MAIN
| OBJECTIVES | STANDARDS | BACKGROUND
| PROCEDURES | ASSESSMENT
| RESOURCES
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.
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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. |
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