Senior Biology - Grade 11 (B.1- Diversity of Living Things)
CONCEPTS
TERTIARY: Extreme Weather Events affect Human Safety and Food Supply
SECONDARY: A Rapidly Changing Climate is Impacting Ecosystems
PRIMARY: Human Activities and Negatively Impacting Native Biodiversity
Assessment OF Learning
Assessment AS Learning
Assessment FOR Learning
ASSIGNMENT: Create a Graphic Organization Chart that describes and connects: A) The Main Impacts and Affects of Humans on Global Climate, B) The stressors and Impacts of Climate and Land Use Changes to Ecosystems, and B) the Related impacts of Climate Change and Land Use to Human Safety and Food Supply
HUMAN SAFETY AND FOOD SECURITY
Extreme Weather Events
Subtopic
Water Quantity and Quality
Disease
Flooding
Crop Loss
ECOSYSTEM STRESSORS
Climate Patterns Disrupt food chain and seasonal timing
Extreme Weather Events = destruction of habitat
Changing Weather Patterns = Species cannot adapt quick enough
Ocean Acidification
Cultivation = monoculture/no diversity
Pesticides + Erosion & Run Off
Disease and Invasive Species
Deforestation = Habitat Loss & Species Exterpation
HUMAN ACTIVITIES THAT AFFECT CLIMATE
Land Use Changes
Agricultural Uses
Monoculture & Pesticides
Factory Farming (Water Use/Methane)
Deforestation / Forest Loss
Urbanization
Heat Island - Impervious Surfaces
Carbon Emissions
Extreme Weather
Weather Pattern Disruption
Ice Melt - Sea Level Rise
Warming Temperature
Atmospheric Insulation (CO2)
ASSESSMENT CATEGORIES
OF Learning: Write a Reflection Journal about what you might do or change about your life as a result of what you learned.
AS Learning: Evaluate another groups's Activity Chart (Peer Assessment Activity)
FOR Learning: Classroom Discussion about the Climate Change misconceptions and in the media or culture
