Learning Domain: Earth and Human Activity
Standard: Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring, evaluating, and managing a human impact on the environment.
WY.SCI.MS.LS2.4
Wyoming Science Content and Performance Standards
Grades 6-8
Learning Domain: Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics
Standard: Construct an argument supported by empirical evidence that changes to physical or biological components of an ecosystem affect populations.
Science Domain: Earth and Space Sciences
Topic: Human Impacts
Standard: Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment.* [Clarification Statement: Examples of the design process include examining human environmental impacts, assessing the kinds of solutions that are feasible, and designing and evaluating solutions that could reduce that impact. Examples of human impacts can include water usage (such as the withdrawal of water from streams and aquifers or the construction of dams and levees), land usage (such as urban development, agriculture, or the removal of wetlands), and pollution (such as of the air, water, or land).]
Science Domain: Life Sciences
Topic: Matter and Energy in Organisms and Ecosystems
Standard: Construct an argument supported by empirical evidence that changes to physical or biological components of an ecosystem affect populations. [Clarification Statement: Emphasis is on recognizing patterns in data and making warranted inferences about changes in populations, and on evaluating empirical evidence supporting arguments about changes to ecosystems.]