The Frog Squad: Atrazine and frog populations
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A lesson plan for Grades 9–12 Advanced Placement Earth and Environmental Science and Earth/Environmental Science
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- Appropriate grades
- 9–12
- Subjects
- science (environmental science)
- Provider
- National Geographic
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In this lesson, students explore the work of scientist Tyrone Hayes and investigate the controversial issues surrounding the use of a chemical called atrazine.
Students will:
- explain how Hayes's cultural and life experiences influenced his career choice and locations of study;
- explain how studying animals' development may provide insight into environmental hazards; and
- examine the issues around the uses and potential hazards of the chemical atrazine.
Xpeditions provides links to all necessary web resources and questions teachers should use in order to engage students in discussion. This lesson also suggests assessment appropriate assessment and enrichment activities.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
Science (2005)
Grades 9–12 — Advanced Placement Earth and Environmental Science
- Goal 7: The learner will build an understanding of environmental decision making.
- Objective 7.01: Analyze economic forces affecting societies.
- Supply demand curves.
- Cost benefit analysis.
- Marginal, internal and external costs.
- Communal property resources, Tragedy of the Commons.
- Economic resource categories.
- Objective 7.04: Develop an awareness of environmental options.
- Conservation.
- Preservation.
- Restoration.
- Remediation.
- Mitigation.
- Objective 7.01: Analyze economic forces affecting societies.
Grades 9–12 — Earth/Environmental Science
- Goal 1: The learner will develop abilities necessary to do and understand scientific inquiry in the earth and environmental sciences.
- Objective 1.06: Identify and evaluate a range of possible solutions to earth and environmental issues at the local, national, and global level including considerations of:
- Interdependent human and natural systems.
- Diverse perspectives.
- Short and long range impacts.
- Economic development, environmental quality and sustainability.
- Opportunities for and consequences of personal decisions.
- Risks and benefits of technological advances.
- Objective 1.06: Identify and evaluate a range of possible solutions to earth and environmental issues at the local, national, and global level including considerations of:
