Marine Mapping
Students learn the importance of habitat mapping and animal trackingCopyright GFDL and Creative Commons CC-BY-SA-2.1 Japan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_protected_area#/media/File:Bunaken_Marine_Park.JPG
Lesson 1, Habitat Mapping, and its associated activity, Map That Habitat, is an introduction to habitat mapping and how technology aids in the process.
Lesson 2, Marine Animal Tracking, and its associated activity, Acting Out Animal Tracking: Map-a-Buddy, is an introduction to the ideas and implications of animal tracking, such as those found within science and commercial industries.
Students learn how technologies developed by engineers are improving the ability of scientists and other researchers to learn about the unknown frontier of marine environments.
MS-LS2-5 Evaluate competing design solutions for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services.
Grades 6-8
This resource focuses on the following Three Dimensional Learning aspects of NGSS:
Science & Engineering Practices- Evaluate competing design solutions based on jointly developed and agreed-upon design criteria.Do you agree with this alignment?
Disciplinary Core Ideas- There are systematic processes for evaluating solutions with respect to how well they meet the criteria and constraints of a problem.Do you agree with this alignment?
- Biodiversity describes the variety of species found in Earth's terrestrial and oceanic ecosystems. The completeness or integrity of an ecosystem's biodiversity is often used as a measure of its health.Do you agree with this alignment?
- Changes in biodiversity can influence humans' resources, such as food, energy, and medicines, as well as ecosystem services that humans rely on—for example, water purification and recycling.Do you agree with this alignment?
Crosscutting Concepts- The uses of technologies and any limitations on their use are driven by individual or societal needs, desires, and values; by the findings of scientific research; and by differences in such factors as climate, natural resources, and economic conditions. Thus technology use varies from region to region and over time.Do you agree with this alignment?
- Small changes in one part of a system might cause large changes in another part.Do you agree with this alignment?
- Scientific knowledge can describe the consequences of actions but does not necessarily prescribe the decisions that society takes.Do you agree with this alignment?
Do you agree with this alignment?- Evaluate competing design solutions based on jointly developed and agreed-upon design criteria.
- Day 1: Habitat Mapping lesson
- Day 2-5: Map That Habitat activity
- Day 6: Marine Animal Tracking lesson
- Day 7-10: Acting Out Animal Tracking: Map-a-Buddy activity
Contributors
Kimberly Goetz; Jonelle Stovall; Melissa Sanderson; Heather Kerkering
Supporting Program
Engineering K-PhD Program, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University
Acknowledgements
This content was developed by the MUSIC (Math Understanding through Science Integrated with Curriculum) Program in the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University under National Science Foundation GK-12 grant no. DGE 0338262. However, these contents do not necessarily represent the policies of the NSF, and you should not assume endorsement by the federal government.
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