| Academic Content Standard |
EEI Learning Objectives |
Unit Activities |
| 2b. Students know rivers and streams are dynamic systems that erode, transport sediment, change course, and flood their banks in natural and recurring patterns. |
Describe how humans and human communities are influenced by soil erosion, sediment transport, course changes and flooding of rivers and streams (e.g. food production, housing construction). |
06: Defining Our Watershed
11: Creek Monitoring |
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Describe how changes to the flow of rivers and streams can influence the functioning of terrestrial, freshwater, coastal and marine ecosystems (e.g. spawning of salmon). |
05: Salmon/Steelhead Creek Walk
06: Defining Our Watershed
11: Creek Monitoring |
| 5b. Students know matter is transferred over time from one organism to others in the food web and between organisms and the physical environment. |
Recognize that matter is transferred over time between organisms in an ecosystem. |
09: Salmon/Steelhead Life Stories
10: Designing for Salmon/Steelhead
12: Planning a Restoration Project |
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Describe the effects of human practices (e.g. agriculture, forestry) and resulting byproducts, on the transfer of matter through natural systems (e.g. food chains and webs). |
09: Salmon/Steelhead Life Stories
10: Designing for Salmon/Steelhead
12: Planning a Restoration Project |
| 5e. Students know the number and types of organisms an ecosystem can support depends on the resources available and on abiotic factors, such as quantities of light and water, a range of temperatures, and soil composition. |
Identify abiotic factors that affect ecosystems. |
10: Designing for Salmon/Steelhead
11: Creek Monitoring
12: Planning a Restoration Project |
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Explain the effects of changing biotic and abiotic factors on an ecosystem (e.g. the effects of changing quantities of light or water, and soil composition on plant growth; range of temperatures on the species composition of animals and plants). 9: Salmon/Steelhead Life Stories (Web Search) |
09: Salmon/Steelhead Life Stories
10: Designing for Salmon/Steelhead
11: Creek Monitoring
12: Planning a Restoration Project |
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Provide examples of how human practices and rates of consumption affect the biotic and abiotic components (e.g. the availability of resources) in a natural system, thus influencing the number and types of organisms an ecosystem can support. |
10: Designing for Salmon/Steelhead
11: Creek Monitoring
12: Planning a Restoration Project |
| 7b-7d, 7f, 7h. |
Not yet developed by EEI. |
See Standards page for activities. |
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