Week 5 Assignment 2

Desired Learning Outcomes:

• Students will identify factors that affect water quality.

• Students will identify and explain factors that alter water ecosystems

• Explain the relationship between the different factors that affect water quality.

• Describe how the factors affect the living organisms in water ecosystem.

• Use credible cyber resources for data collection.

• Manipulate ICTS to facilitate the process of pin point scientifically testable questions and locating valuable and accurate information

• Use ICTS to support data organization, data presentation and draw conclusions

• Use ICTS to communicate findings to the learning community using assortment of media formats.

Acceptable Evidence:Students Will:

• Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resources availability on organisms and population of organisms in an ecosystem.

• Construct an explanation that predicts patterns and interactions among organisms across multiple ecosystems.

• Construct an argument supported by empirical evidence that changes to physical of biological components of an ecosystems affect populations. 

Learning Activities

Day 1- Pre inquiry discussion:Students will form groups and brainstorm on the effects of human activity on water quality using prior knowledge.Teacher will guide students on overall strategies for conducting internet research.Students will research the direct and indirect effects of human activity on water ecosystems they will then share their findings with the rest of the class.

Day 2- Model the Structured inquiry processTeacher will model the inquiry process.

Day 3-  Guided inquiry research processThe teacher will guide students to develop scientifically researchable questions that they will be able to answer using internet research and then formulate their hypothesis by asking questions.

Day 4- Initiated open inquiry research processStudents will form research questions and hypothesis. They will then collect data using the internet and examine their hypothesis using the evidence.
Students will enter their data into a spreadsheet to analyze, create charts, examine their hypothesis, research questions, data analysis and conclusions.

Link to my rubric: http://www.rcampus.com/rubricshowc.cfm?code=GX7C75X&sp=yes