Learning Goals
Students will be able to formulate investigable questions and evidence-based hypotheses about how water, food, safety, climate, and competition cause people and animals to migrate.
Students will be able to analyze scientific texts, A Long Walk to Water, maps, field observations, and partner-provided information to identify patterns connecting water availability, migration, ecosystems, and civilizations.
Students will be able to explain human and animal migration using geographic evidence, ecological resource needs, and push-and-pull factors.
Students will be able to develop a food-web model that represents producers, consumers, decomposers, nonliving resources, matter cycling, and energy flow in a water-dependent ecosystem.
Students will be able to design an evidence-based method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on a local or researched aquatic ecosystem.
Students will be able to evaluate competing solutions for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services using evidence, criteria, trade-offs, and limitations.
Students will be able to communicate and revise an evidence-based explanation of how water shapes migration, ecosystems, and civilizations through informational writing, safe sensory poetry, scientific visuals, maps, reflection, and public presentation.
Products
Water, Migration, and Ecology Investigation Portfolio
Each student produces an investigation notebook, sensory migration poem, two evidence-based informational reports, labeled scientific illustration, food-web model, map analysis, and comparison of environmental solutions. The portfolio documents source notes, field or partner evidence, revisions, and an individual explanation of how water shapes migration, ecosystems, and civilizations.
Mapped Water-Dependent Civilization and Environmental Investigation Exhibit
Teams create and publicly present a mapped civilization showing water systems, settlement and migration patterns, an ecosystem food web, and a research-based method for monitoring and minimizing environmental impact. The exhibit synthesizes members’ individual investigations, compares conservation options, documents revisions and limitations, and supports responses to questions from families, staff, community members, and project partners.
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