Life Science: The Study of the Environment, Organisms, and their Interactions
Life Science: The Study of the Environment, Organisms, and their Interactions High School Course
COURSE LENGTH:
Full Year (30 Sessions)
Course Overview
This 7th grade science course is focused on the world we live in and the surrounding environment. The course runs for 45 sessions of 40 minutes each and will touch upon the major parts of environmental science, sustainability, and marine biology. We will move through many different aspects of the environment, its impact on us, and the impact that we as humans create. Topics will include the past, present, and future of our world, the human population, populations of other species, as well as their ecosystems and parts of the earth that we cannot even see. Students will be assessed through labs and course activities, as well as summative assessments throughout the trimester. Students interested in the environment, sustainable practices, and plant and animal ecosystems will enjoy this course and our in-depth research into the pieces that make up our world.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Students will explore:
Environmental history, law, human population, energy, climate change
Ecology, Biodiversity, Air and Water, Agriculture and food, environmental justice
Microbiology, Physiology, Coral reef, deep-sea environments, fisheries, aquatic diseases
Students will practice the essential skills of:
Reading and writing science articles, lab reports
Creating hypotheses, inferences, observations, and claims
Researching a scientific question to answer a question
Students will:
Create and research critical scientific questions concerning the environment
Read, create, and analyze charts, tables, and graphs of data
Think critically through scientific problems and questions