 Adirondack
Curriculum
Project - www.adkcurriculum.org
NYS Content Area Standard
MST
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Title: Ecological Profile CHALLENGE TO BE
REVISED 6/06
Grade Level: 10th Grade, Living Environment
Author: J. Winters & A. Green, Hadley-Luzerne CSD
Email: greena@hlcs.org
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Adirondack Curriculum Content Area
_X_ Natural History
___ Human History
___ Culture & the Arts
___ Government & Civics
_X_ Economy
___ Health, Recreation &
Life Skills |
Investigative Question or Issue: How to collect and
analyze data to create a sustainable management plan for an Adirondack
forest?
Challenge:
1.
Set-up challenge groups with 4 or 5 students per group
2. Create PowerPoint presentation incorporating data from the 4
individual assessments with manage-ment plan recommendations. Plan has
the following components:
a. identify current
status of each of the 4 areas;
b. identify management plan for each of the 4 areas
c. give the impact of the plan on each of the 4 areas
d. predict what a control plot might look like at
different points in the future
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Quality Standards:
Individual
field journal to include procedure, field data, as well as related
assignments.
PowerPoint presentation rubric including peer review
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Adapted for the Adirondack
Curriculum Project from
the work of Education By Design TM and Leading EDGE, LLC
©ACP 2002
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Northern Forest Partnership.