Lesson #5:

Land Management

Trade-Offs

Standards

HS-LS2-7.

Design, evaluate, and refine a solution for reducing the impacts of human activities on the environment and biodiversity

Reminders

1) Human Impact quiz Tomorrow on Lessons 1-5

2)Tutoring on Tuesdays 2:45 virtually or in-person with Mrs. Olsen.

Part 1:

SEL Warm-Up

What is your favorite Halloween Candy?

(5 min)

Directions: In your notebooks, tell us your favorite halloween candy and describe why you like it so much.

Part 2:

Trade-off Review

Two Box Induction

(10 min)

Two Box Induction: Deforestation

Part 3

A description of an important trade-off associated with the use of nets and fishing technology by fishermen includes the fact that:

(1) many fish can be caught at one time but fish that are not meant to be caught are often killed.

(2) using nets is efficient, and many fish can be caught at one time.

(3) some fish that are not intended to be caught are killed, and some are in danger of extinction.

(4) when fish become abundant, fishermen can go out farther in the ocean to catch them.

Part 4:

Explicit Instruction: "I Do"

Identifying Trade-Offs

(10 min)

Describe a trade-off associated with clearing tropical rainforests to increase palm oil production. [1] Use because, but and so in your response.

Part 5

Directions: Each group has been given a different land management story.

Read: The student with the highest table number reads the story aloud to the group.
TNT #1 –Casual Convo: Discuss the essential question using your own words.
TNT #2 – Scientific Vocabulary: Discuss the same question, using vocabulary from your word bank. Check off the words you use.
TNT #3 – Think Like a Scientist: Write a short response using because, but, and so. Describe the trade-off and propose a solution that reduces environmental harm.
Self Assess: Use the checklist at the bottom to make sure you response included everything asked.

Part 6

Our [Nitrogen] Fertilized World

It is the engine of agriculture, the key to plenty in our crowded, hungry world. … …Enter modern chemistry. Giant factories capture inert nitrogen gas from the vast stores in our atmosphere and force it into a chemical union with the hydrogen in natural gas, creating the reactive compounds that plants crave. That nitrogen fertilizer – more than a hundred million tons applied worldwide every year – fuels bountiful harvests. Without it, human civilization in its current form could not exist. Our planet’s soil simply could not grow enough food to provide all seven billion of us our accustomed diet. In fact, almost half of the nitrogen found in our bodies’ muscle and organ tissue started out in a fertilizer factory.

Explain how the building of factories to produce fertilizer is an example of a trade-off.

Page updated

Google Sites

Report abuse