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Why Is Something That’s Happening Out in The Ocean Such a Danger to Us on the Land?
Duration: 60-90 minutes
Grade Levels: 6-8
Many of you have probably visited a body of water—the ocean, a lake, a pond or a river— but have you ever thought about how changes in those bodies of water could change things happening on land?
Grade Levels: 6-8
Duration: 60-90 minutes
Objectives:
- Read and use grade-appropriate texts and other media to ask questions and develop a model to figure out how human activities that happen on land can affect the aquatic system of the Gulf of Maine.
Climate Standards Connections
| Next Generation Science Standards | ||
| Grade | Performance Expectation | Description |
| 6-8 |
|
Construct an argument supported by empirical evidence that changes to physical or biological components of an ecosystem affect populations. |
| Climate Change Connections | ecosystems | |
| Clarification Statement & Assessment Boundary | Emphasis is on recognizing patterns in data and making warranted inferences about changes in populations, and on evaluating empirical evidence supporting arguments about changes to ecosystems. | |
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