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?
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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

MS-LS2-4

 

 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.