The pros and cons of artificial reefs

North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

Science (2005)

Grade 8

• Goal 1: The learner will design and conduct investigations to demonstrate an understanding of scientific inquiry.
  • 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 2.02: Use information systems to:
    • Identify scientific needs, human needs, or problems that are subject to technological solution.
    • Locate resources to obtain and test ideas.
• 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.

Grades 9–12 — Biology

• Goal 1: The learner will develop abilities necessary to do and understand scientific inquiry.
  • Objective 1.03: Formulate and revise scientific explanations and models of biological phenomena using logic and evidence to:
    • Explain observations.
    • Make inferences and predictions.
    • Explain the relationship between evidence and explanation.
• Goal 5: The learner will develop an understanding of the ecological relationships among organisms.
  • Objective 5.01: Investigate and analyze the interrelationships among organisms, populations, communities, and ecosystems.
    • Techniques of field ecology.
    • Abiotic and biotic factors.
    • Carrying capacity.
  • Objective 5.03: Assess human population and its impact on local ecosystems and global environments:
    • Historic and potential changes in population.
    • Factors associated with those changes.
    • Climate change.
    • Resource use.
    • Sustainable practices/stewardship.

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.
• Goal 4: The learner will build an understanding of the hydrosphere and its interactions and influences on the lithosphere, the atmosphere, and environmental quality.
  • Objective 4.04: Evaluate water resources:
    • Storage and movement of groundwater.
    • Ecological services provided by the ocean
    • Environmental impacts of a growing human population.
    • Causes of natural and manmade contamination.
  • Objective 4.05: Investigate and analyze environmental issues and solutions for North Carolina's river basins, wetlands, and tidal environments:
    • Water quality.
    • Shoreline changes.
    • Habitat preservation.