Threats to ocean life: Can marine sanctuaries help?

Science (2005)

Grade 8

• Goal 1: The learner will design and conduct investigations to demonstrate an understanding of scientific inquiry.
  • Objective 1.01: Identify and create questions and hypotheses that can be answered through scientific investigations.
  • Objective 1.05: Analyze evidence to:
    • explain observations.
    • make inferences and predictions.
    • develop the relationship between evidence and explanation.
  • Objective 1.08: Use oral and written language to:
    • Communicate findings.
    • Defend conclusions of scientific investigations.
    • Describe strengths and weaknesses of claims, arguments, and/or data.
  • Objective 1.09: Use technologies and information systems to:
    • Research.
    • Gather and analyze data.
    • Visualize data.
    • Disseminate findings to others.
  • Objective 1.10: Analyze and evaluate information from a scientifically literate viewpoint by reading, hearing, and/or viewing:
    • Scientific text.
    • Articles.
    • Events in the popular press.
• Goal 2: The learner will demonstrate an understanding of technological design.
  • Objective 2.01: Explore evidence that "technology" has many definitions.
    • Artifact or hardware.
    • Methodology or technique.
    • System of production.
    • Social-technical system.
  • Objective 2.02: Use information systems to:
    • Identify scientific needs, human needs, or problems that are subject to technological solution.
    • Locate resources to obtain and test ideas.
  • Objective 2.03: Evaluate technological designs for:
    • Application of scientific principles.
    • Risks and benefits.
    • Constraints of design.
    • Consistent testing protocols.
  • Objective 2.04: Apply tenets of technological design to make informed consumer decisions about:
    • Products.
    • Processes.
    • Systems.
• Goal 3: The learner will conduct investigations and utilize appropriate technologies and information systems to build an understanding of the hydrosphere.
  • Objective 3.03: Evaluate evidence that Earth's oceans are a reservoir of nutrients, minerals, dissolved gases, and life forms:
    • Estuaries.
    • Marine ecosystems.
    • Upwelling.
    • Behavior of gases in the marine environment.
    • Value and sustainability of marine resources.
    • Deep ocean technology and understandings gained.
  • Objective 3.04: Describe how terrestrial and aquatic food webs are interconnected.
  • Objective 3.05: Analyze hydrospheric data over time to predict the health of a water system including:
    • Temperature.
    • Dissolved oxygen.
    • pH.
    • Nitrates.
    • Turbidity.
    • Bio-indicators.
  • Objective 3.06: Evaluate technologies and information systems used to monitor the hydrosphere.
  • Objective 3.07: Describe how humans affect the quality of water:
    • Point and non-point sources of water pollution in North Carolina.
    • Possible effects of excess nutrients in North Carolina waters.
    • Economic trade-offs.
    • Local water issues.
  • Objective 3.08: Recognize that the good health of environments and organisms requires:
    • Monitoring of the hydrosphere.
    • Water quality standards.
    • Methods of water treatment.
    • Maintaining safe water quality.
    • Stewardship.