... activities that supplement a high school ecology or environmental science curricular unit or as a multiday rotation of stations in which students practice field sampling techniques used in population and community ecology, designed to answer ecological questions. Student scientists learn how to use indirect...

... to the environment where people live using EJSCREEN ( https://www.epa.gov/ejscreen ), an environmental justice screening and mapping tool. The cornerstone of NGSS – using disciplinary core ideas to explain phenomena and develop solutions to real-world problems – was a catalyst for the creation...

... Disease.” “Mercury in the Environment” was adapted from an article by the Utah Department of Environmental Quality (n.d.) . The article introduces the concept of biomagnification and explains the process by which mercury is introduced into the environment, undergoes chemical changes, and enters...

... requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press's Reprints and Permissions web page, www.ucpress.edu/journals.php?p=reprints . 2015 Data management environment graphing hypothesis testing limnology weather (1) Choose...

... the phenomenon of environmental plasticity. Plasticity is the ability of a single genotype to produce multiple phenotypes when exposed to environmental conditions. Plasticity allows an organism to respond to variability in the environment in potentially adaptive ways. Vector B illustrates genetic variation...

..., and response to environment); and (3) the relationship of the group with humans and/or other species. Earlier in the semester, we had begun the discussion on Science, Technology, and Society (STS), including environmental issues that surfaced again during students' discussion of biodiversity. Our school...