August 11-15

Monday, June 08, 2009

9:16 AM

Materials Objectives Marzano
Strategies
Blooms
Taxonomy
Assessment Notes

SOL

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Benchmark Test



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1.1 Our Island
Earth

How does
environmental
science help us
understand the
natural world?
Describe the
recent trends in
human
population and
resource
consumption.
Explain the focus
of environmental
science.
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1.2 The Nature of
Science

What does it mean
to "do science"?
Explain what
science is.
Describe the
process of
science.
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1.3 The Community
of Science

What happens to a
scientific study
after data have
been gathered and
the results are
analyzed?
Describe the
major roles of
the scientific
community in
the process of
science.
Explain the study
of environmental
ethics.
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organizers


August 18-22
Monday, June 08, 2009
9:16 AM

Materials Objectives Marzano
Strategies
Blooms
Taxonomy
Assessment Notes

SOL

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Test, chapter 1

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2.1 Economics

How is
sustainability
affected by
economics?


Describe two
basic concepts of
economics.
Explain the
relationship
between
economics and
the
environment.
Describe ways
that economies
are working
toward
sustainability.
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2.2 U.S.
Environment Policy

How do
environmental
policies protect the
environment?
Explain the
purpose of
environmental
policy.
Describe the
history of U.S.
environmental
policy.
Describe the
direction of
current U.S.
environmental
policy.
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Early Dismissal
Fishing Lab
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August 25-29
Monday, June 08, 2009
9:16 AM

Materials Objectives Marzano
Strategies
Blooms
Taxonomy
Assessment Notes

SOL

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2.3 International
Environmental
Policy and Agenda
How can
governments work
with each other and
citizens to form
sound
environmental
policy?



Identify major
international
institutions
involved in
environmental
policy.
Discuss different
approaches to
environmental
policy.
List the steps
involved in the
environmental
policy process.
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Test, ch. 2

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3.1 Matter and the
Environment

What properties of
matter are most
important to
environmental
systems?
Differentiate
among an atom,
an element, a
molecule, and a
compound.
Discuss how
various
macromolecules
are essential to
life.
Identify some
unusual
properties of
water.
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3.2 Systems in
Environmental
Science
What types of
systems play roles
in environmental
science?
Describe two
major ways that
Earth's systems
interact.
Define Earth's
geosphere,
lithosphere,
biosphere,
atmosphere, and
hydrosphere.
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September 1-5
Monday, June 08, 2009
9:16 AM

Materials Objectives Marzano
Strategies
Blooms
Taxonomy
Assessment Notes

SOL

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3.3 Earth's Spheres

What are the
characteristics of
Earth's geosphere,
biosphere,
atmosphere, and
hydrosphere?





Describe the
parts of Earth's
geosphere.

Describe Earth's
biosphere and
atmosphere.

Discuss the
water cycle.
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3.4 Biogeochemical
Cycles

How do nutrients
cycle through the
environment?
Explain how the
law of
conservation of
matter applies
to the behavior
of nutrients in
the
environment.
Describe the
carbon cycle.
Describe the
events of the
phosphorus
cycle.
Explain the
importance of
bacteria to the
nitrogen cycle.
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Test, Ch. 3

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September 8-12
Monday, June 08, 2009
9:16 AM

Materials Objectives Marzano
Strategies
Blooms
Taxonomy
Assessment Notes

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4.1 Studying Ecology

How do ecologists
organize and study
life?



Describe the
different levels
of organization
studied by
ecologists.
Explain the
difference
between biotic
and abiotic
factors.
Discuss how
an organism's
habitat relates
to its survival.
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4.2 Describing
Populations

What are the
important
characteristics of
populations?






Explain the
usefulness of
tracking
population size.
Define
population
density.
Describe the
three ways
populations can
be distributed.
Explain what
age structure
diagrams tell
you about a
population.
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4.3 Population
Growth

What factors
determine whether,
and how, a
population's size
changes?
Describe the
factors that
influence a
population's
growth rate.
Explain
exponential
growth and
logistic growth.
Explain how
limiting factors
and biotic
potential affect
population
growth.
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Test ch. 4

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September 15-19
Monday, June 08, 2009
9:16 AM

Materials Objectives Marzano
Strategies
Blooms
Taxonomy
Assessment Notes

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5.1 Evolution

What role does the
environment play in
an organism's
survival and
reproduction?



Describe the
four primary
mechanisms of
biological
evolution.

Describe how
speciation and
extinction affect
the diversity of
life on Earth.
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5.2 Species
Interactions

How do species
interact in nature?






Discuss the
factors that
influence an
organism's niche.
Compare and
contrast
predation,
parasitism, and
herbivory.
Describe
mutualism and
commensalism.
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5.3 Ecological
Communities

How do energy and
nutrients move
through
communities?
Explain the
difference
between a
producer and a
consumer.
Explain the effect
of inefficient
energy transfer
on community
structure.
Describe how
feeding
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relationships can
have both direct
and indirect
effects on
community
members.
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5.4 Community
Stability

How do
communities
respond to a
disturbance?
Describe what
happens to a
community after
a disturbance.
Explain the
conditions
necessary for a
species to
become invasive.
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Test, ch. 5

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