Chalkboard

© 2003 by Williamson County Schools and EdVISION Corporation.
All Rights Reserved.

Made with Curriculum Designer
Made with
Curriculum Designer by
EdVISION Corporation

Williamson County Schools
WCSCurriculum
Science - Environmental Science

Earth and Space Science
Natural Resources: Conserve/Recognize
The learner will be able to recognize methods to conserve resources at use in the home.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Environmental Science, Indicators, Level 2, Std 5.0 Home
  
Natural Resources: List
The learner will be able to list examples of resources that are renewable or nonrenewable.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Environmental Science, Indicators, Level 1, Std 3.0 Home
  
Natural Resources: Limitations/Identify
The learner will be able to identify that there are limitations in the use of natural resources.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Environmental Science, Indicators, Level 1, Std 3.0 Home
  
Natural Resources: Conserved/Observe
The learner will be able to observe non-energy natural resources and how they are conserved.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Environmental Science, Std 3.0 Home
  
Natural Resources: Investigate/Types
The learner will be able to investigate the types of non-energy renewable and nonrenewable resources.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Environmental Science, 3.1 Home
  
Natural Resources: Investigate/Uses
The learner will be able to investigate the uses of non-energy renewable and nonrenewable resources.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Environmental Science, 3.1 Home
  
Natural Resources: Investigate/History
The learner will be able to investigate the history of non-energy renewable and nonrenewable resources.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Environmental Science, 3.1 Home
  
Natural Resources: Explore/Conserved
The learner will be able to explore the ways in which basic non-energy resources are conserved.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Environmental Science, 3.2 Home
  
Natural Resources: Conserve/Assess
The learner will be able to assess methods to conserve resources used in the home.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Environmental Science, Indicators, Level 2, Std 5.0 Home
  
Natural Resources: Judge/Status
The learner will be able to judge the status of the principle, non-energy, renewable and nonrenewable resources.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Environmental Science, Indicators, Level 2, Std 3.0 Home
  
Natural Resources: Ways/Judge/Conserved
The learner will be able to judge the ways natural resources are conserved.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Environmental Science, Indicators, Level 2, Std 3.0 Home
  
Natural Resources: Non-energy/Assess
The learner will be able to assess the use of the principle, non-energy, renewable and nonrenewable resources.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Environmental Science, Indicators, Level 2, Std 3.0 Home
  
Soil: Layers/Differentiate
The learner will be able to differentiate between soil layers using characteristics.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Environmental Science, Indicators, Level 1, Std 3.0 Home
  
Water Cycle: Label/Fundamental/Parts
The learner will be able to label the fundamental parts of the water cycle.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Environmental Science, Indicators, Level 1, Std 1.0 Home
  
Water Cycle: Interpret/Biosphere
The learner will be able to interpret the water cycle in the biosphere.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 3,3.3 week tested: 36. Home
  
Resources: Society/List
The learner will be able to list how society wastes and conserves resources.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Environmental Science, Indicators, Level 1, Std 3.0 Home
  
Minerals: Forecast/Impact
The learner will be able to forecast the impact of shortages in principle mineral resources.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Environmental Science, Indicators, Level 2, Std 3.0 Home
  
Minerals: Used/Assess/Resources
The learner will be able to assess the positives and negatives of how mineral resources are used by humans.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Environmental Science, Indicators, Level 1, Std 3.0 Home
  
Geochemical Cycles: Interpret/Biosphere
The learner will be able to interpret the principal chemical cycles in the biosphere.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 3.0 week tested: 36. Home
  
Geochemical Cycles: Interpret/Biosphere
The learner will be able to interpret the carbon, oxygen and nitrogen cycles in the biosphere.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 3,3.3 week tested: 36. Home
  
Geochemical Cycles: Oxygen-Carbon
The learner will be able to interpret an illustration of the oxygen-carbon dioxide cycle.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 3,State Level 1 week tested: 36. Home
  
Geochemical Cycles: Oxygen-Carbon/Model
The learner will be able to create a model or diagram of the oxygen-carbon dioxide cycle.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 3,Teacher Level 1 week tested: 36. Home
  
Acid Rain: Explore/Impact/Environment
The learner will be able to explore the impact of acid rain on the environment.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 2,Teacher Level 2 week tested: 36. Home
  
top  

Living Things: Diversity/Explore
The learner will be able to explore the diversity of living things by interpreting classification systems, investigating different environments, and comparing life cycles.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 5.0 week tested: 36. Home
  
Living Things: Relationships/Identify
The learner will be able to identify relationships among living things on the basis of structural parts, symmetry, metamorphosis and alternation of generations by integrating a comparative study of plant and animal anatomical structures.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 5,5.3 week tested: 36. Home
  
Reproduction: Cells/Diagram/Label
The learner will be able to diagram and label various reproductive cells utilizing a microscope or hand lens.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 4,Teacher Level 2 week tested: 36. Home
  
Fossils: Associate/Biogeographical
The learner will be able to gather and/or survey a variety of fossils and associate them to biogeographical alterations.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 6,Teacher Level 1 week tested: 36. Home
  
Animals & Plants: Study/Find
The learner will be able to study plant and animal specimens and find similarities and differences in their structural parts, symmetry and life cycles.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 5,Teacher Level 1 week tested: 36. Home
  
Animals: Physical Attributes/Symmetry
The learner will be able to survey or model body plans with asymmetry, radial and bilateral symmetry.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 5,Teacher Level 2 week tested: 36. Home
  
Human Population: Graphs/Infer/Effect
The learner will be able to interpret human population graphs to infer the effect on global resources, political systems and political systems.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 2,Teacher Level 3 week tested: 36. Home
  
Human Nutrition: Food/Diet
The learner will be able to document his/her nutritional intake for one week, calculate the amount of caloric intake each day for each biomolecule, and assess his/her diet to create a plan of improvement.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 1,Teacher Level 2 week tested: 36. Home
  
Environment: Conserving/Study
The learner will be able to study and communicate findings on the importance of conserving energy.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Environmental Science, Indicators, Level 1, Std 4.0 Home
  
Living Things: Habitats/Survey
The learner will be able to survey a habitat that is outside and recognize its living and nonliving factors, kinds of populations, producers, consumers and decomposers.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 2,Teacher Level 1 week tested: 36. Home
  
Ecosystems: Human/Research/Presentation
The learner will be able to research examples where human impact has altered an ecosystem using recent publications and prepare a written and/or oral presentation of his/her findings.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 2,Teacher Level 2 week tested: 36. Home
  
Environment: Population/Events/Impact
The learner will be able to gather data from local or regional records about population counts of a particular species found in the area and hypothesize what events might impact populations.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 6,Teacher Level 3 week tested: 36. Home
  
Graphs: Population/Create/Analyze
The learner will be able to gather data, create and analyze population graphs to find out if the population is stable, increasing or decreasing.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 2,Teacher Level 2 week tested: 36. Home
  
Biochemistry: Enzymes/Plan/Perform
The learner will be able to plan and perform a controlled experiment to survey enzymatic actions and recognize potential sources of error.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 1,Teacher Level 3 week tested: 36. Home
  
Heredity: Genetics/Karyotype
The learner will be able to create and/or interpret a karyotype and recognize abnormalities for chromosome number, deletions and translocations.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 4,Teacher Level 3 week tested: 36. Home
  
Genetic Engineering: DNA Technologies
The learner will be able to investigate and assess DNA technologies from an ethical and scientific perspective.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 4.0 week tested: 36. Home
  
Growth & Development: Metamorphosis
The learner will be able to model or survey the stages of complete and incomplete metamorphosis.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 5,Teacher Level 2 week tested: 36. Home
  
Plants: Model/Movement
The learner will be able to model or depict the movement of water, oxygen, nitrogen and carbon dioxide through a plant.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 3,Teacher Level 1 week tested: 36. Home
  
Cells: Compute/Ratio
The learner will be able to compute the ratio of cell surface area to cell volume.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 1,Teacher Level 2 week tested: 36. Home
  
Cells: Compare/Organelles/Kinds
The learner will be able to compare the organelles of various kinds of cells.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 1,1.2 week tested: 36. Home
  
Cells: Organelle/Investigate
The learner will be able to investigate the structure and function of organelles in the cell.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std 1.0 week tested: 36. Home
  
Cells: Plant and Animal/Differentiate
The learner will be able to differentiate plant and animal cells.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 1,State Level 1 week tested: 36. Home
  
Cells: Processes/Interpret
The learner will be able to interpret a variety of cell processes.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 1,1.4 week tested: 36. Home
  
Cells: Cycle/Find/Plant/Animal
The learner will be able to find similarities and differences in the cell cycle of plant and animal cells.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 1,State Level 1 week tested: 36. Home
  
Cells: Investigate/Organelles/Kinds
The learner will be able to investigate the organelles of various kinds of cells.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 1,1.2 week tested: 36. Home
  
Cells: Model/Three-Dimensional
The learner will be able to make a three-dimensional model of a cell.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 1,Teacher Level 1 week tested: 36. Home
  
Living Things: Environment/Interact
The learner will be able to explore how organisms and their environments interact though various relationships, population dynamics and behavior patterns.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 2.0 week tested: 36. Home
  
Organisms: Extinction/Investigate
The learner will be able to investigate the factors that make organisms vulnerable to extinction.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Environmental Science, 1.6 Home
  
Organisms: Graphs/Interpret/Needs
The learner will be able to interpret graphs displaying information about a living thing's needs within a habitat.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Environmental Science, Indicators, Level 1, Std 1.0 Home
  
Organisms: Graphs/Make/Needs
The learner will be able to make graphs displaying information about a living thing's needs within a habitat.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Environmental Science, Indicators, Level 1, Std 1.0 Home
  
Organisms: Diorama/Time Line/Alteration
The learner will be able to create a diorama or time line that shows the alteration of living things over time.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 6,Teacher Level 3 week tested: 36. Home
  
Respiration: Recognize/Equations
The learner will be able to recognize the reactants and products of respiration when provided with the equations.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 3,State Level 1 week tested: 36. Home
  
Respiration: Order/Steps/Cellular
The learner will be able to order the steps of cellular respiration.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 3,Teacher Level 2 week tested: 36. Home
  
Respiration: Order/Steps/Anaerobic
The learner will be able to order the steps of anaerobic respiration.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 3,Teacher Level 2 week tested: 36. Home
  
Respiration & Photosynthesis: Proces
The learner will be able to find similarities and differences in the biological processes that are involved in energy transfer during photosynthesis and respiration.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 3.0 week tested: 36. Home
  
Respiration: Investigate/Aerobic
The learner will be able to investigate the efficiency of aerobic respiration.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 3,3.4 week tested: 36. Home
  
Respiration: Investigate/Anaerobic
The learner will be able to investigate the efficiency of anaerobic respiration.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 3,3.4 week tested: 36. Home
  
Respiration & Photosynthesis: Relate
The learner will be able to explore how respiration and photosynthesis relate.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 3,3.2 week tested: 36. Home
  
Respiration & Photosynthesis: Connec
The learner will be able to connect the way that respiration and photosynthesis are dependant on one another to organisms.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 3,State Level 2 week tested: 36. Home
  
Respiration: Compare/Efficiency
The learner will be able to compare the efficiency of aerobic and anaerobic respiration.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 3,Teacher Level 3 week tested: 36. Home
  
Respiration: Differentiate/Oxygen/ATP
The learner will be able to differentiate between aerobic and anaerobic respiration with respect to the presence or absence of oxygen and the production of ATP.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 3,State Level 2 week tested: 36. Home
  
Respiration & Photosynthesis: Charts
The learner will be able to create charts showing the similarities and differences among the reactants, products and energy transfer in photosynthesis and respiration.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 3,Teacher Level 2 week tested: 36. Home
  
Reproduction: Find Differences
The learner will be able to find differences between asexual and sexual reproduction.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 4,4.3, State Level 1 week tested: 36. Home
  
Reproduction: Find Similarities
The learner will be able to find similarities between asexual and sexual reproduction.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 4,4.3 week tested: 36. Home
  
Producers/Consumers: Recognize
The learner will be able to recognize producers, consumers and decomposers in food chains or webs.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 2,Teacher Level 1 week tested: 36. Home
  
Producers/Consumers: Group/Environments
The learner will be able to group living things as producers, consumers, and decomposers when provided with descriptions of their environments.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Environmental Science, Indicators, Level 1, Std 1.0 Home
  
Producers/Consumers/Decomposers: Group
The learner will be able to group living things as producers, consumers, or decomposers when provided with their behaviors and environments.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 2,State Level 1 week tested: 36. Home
  
Ecosystems: Structure/Comprehend
The learner will be able to comprehend the structure of ecosystems.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Environmental Science, 1.1 Home
  
Ecosystems: Show/Functions/Earth
The learner will be able to show a comprehension of the functions of the principal ecosystems on earth.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Environmental Science, 1.1 Home
  
Ecosystems: Model/Conditions/Maintain
The learner will be able to build a model of an ecosystem in order to identify the general conditions required to maintain an ecosystem.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 2,Teacher Level 1 week tested: 36. Home
  
Ecosystems: Model/Maintain
The learner will be able to maintain a model of an ecosystem.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 2,Teacher Level 2 week tested: 36. Home
  
Environment: Factors/Explore/Affect
The learner will be able to explore factors that affect and are affected by the natural environment.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Environmental Science, Std 1.0 Home
  
Environment: Differentiate/Components
The learner will be able to differentiate between abiotic and biotic components of the environment.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 2,2.2 week tested: 36. Home
  
Environment: Issue/Develop/Action
The learner will be able to develop a personal plan of action designed to find a specific solution to an environmental issue.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Environmental Science, Indicators, Level 3, Std 6.0 Home
  
Fossils: Age/Estimate/Carbon 14
The learner will be able to estimate the age of a fossil when provided with the amount of Carbon 14 atoms and the half-life of C-14.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 6,Teacher Level 2 week tested: 36. Home
  
Fossils: Formation/Find
The learner will be able to find similarities and differences in the processes of fossil formation.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 6,Teacher Level 1 week tested: 36. Home
  
Fossils: Ages/Distinguish/Rock Strata
The learner will be able to distinguish between the relative ages of a variety of fossils in sedimentary rock when provided with an illustration of rock strata.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 6,State Level 1 week tested: 36. Home
  
Fossils: Make/Casts/Molds
The learner will be able to make pretend fossils utilizing casts and molds.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 6,Teacher Level 1 week tested: 36. Home
  
Animals & Plants: Indigenous/Choose
The learner will be able to choose animals and plants that are indigenous to a particular environment by studying pictures or given scenarios.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Environmental Science, Indicators, Level 1, Std 1.0 Home
  
Animals & Plants: Deduce/Native
The learner will be able to deduce which animals or plants are native to an environment when provided with illustrations of various organisms and descriptions of the environment.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 5,State Level 1 week tested: 36. Home
  
Vertebrates: Embryos/Observe/Compare
The learner will be able to observe a variety of vertebrate embryos and compare their early embryonic development to demonstrate relatedness.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 6,Teacher Level 2 week tested: 36. Home
  
Heredity: Explore
The learner will be able to explore the ideas of genetics and heredity, various methods of reproduction, patterns of inheritance, and genetic disorders.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 4.0 week tested: 36. Home
  
Heredity: Breeding/Natural Selection
The learner will be able to distinguish between selective breeding and natural selection.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 6,State Level 2 week tested: 36. Home
  
Diseases: Essay/Lifestyle/Associates
The learner will be able to compose a persuasive essay, using current scientific journals to support it, which associates a certain disease with particular lifestyle choices.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 1,Teacher Level 1 week tested: 36. Home
  
Life Cycle: Alternation of Generations
The learner will be able to survey or depict the alternation of generations in a plant or animal species.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 5,Teacher Level 2 week tested: 36. Home
  
Life Cycle: Find/Alternation
The learner will be able to find similarities and differences in the life cycles of a variety of living things to include alternation of generations when provided with pictorial representations.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 5,State Level 3 week tested: 36. Home
  
Careers: Pollution/Explore
The learner will be able to explore careers relating to environmental health, sustainability, and/or pollution.
Source Activities
TN: Curriculum Standards, 2001, Environmental Science, Indicators, Level 1, Std 5.0 Home
  
Careers: Cells/Research
The learner will be able to research careers that have to do with the study of cells.
Source Activities
TN: Gateway Test, 1999, Biology I, Std. 1,Teacher Level 1 week tested: 36. Home
  
Careers: Diversity/Research
The learner will be able to research careers that have to do with diversity.
<
Source