Agricultural+Systems+12

**Grade 12 Agriculture and Society**
 * 4.4.12 C. Analyze and research the social, political, and economic factors that affect agricultural systems. **


 * Performance Standard 4.4.12 C.1 Analyze the costs and benefits associated with agriculture practices and how they affect economic and human needs. **
 * **What will student achievement of this performance standard look like?** || Students will create an analysis chart by explaining how each of the four pieces of evidence relate to the theory of evolution ||
 * **How will you assess student achievement of this performance standard?** || obective test, rubric for chart, and informal questioning ||
 * **What prior knowledge do students need to have to learn this performance standard?** || genetics, classification, structure and function ||
 * **What instructional activities can be used effectively to teach this performance standard?** || direct instruction, lab activity, web tutorial, video streaming ||
 * **How long will it take your students to achieve this performance standard?** || 3 days ||
 * **How will you ensure all students achieve this performance standard?** || remedation activities ||
 * **In which unit(s) will you teach this performance standard?** || evolution ||


 * Performance Standard 4.4.12 C.2 Analyze the costs and benefits of agriculture research practices in society. **
 * **What will student achievement of this performance standard look like?** || Diagram or illustrate a population of organisms with explanations on how mutations and gene recombination change populations. ||
 * **How will you assess student achievement of this performance standard?** || Objective Test, Project, Lab Report ||
 * **What prior knowledge do students need to have to learn this performance standard?** || Genetics, Cells ||
 * **What instructional activities can be used effectively to teach this performance standard?** || Lecture, Laboratory Activity, Reading Strategy ||
 * **How long will it take your students to achieve this performance standard?** || 3 days ||
 * **How will you ensure all students achieve this performance standard?** || Remedial activities ||
 * **In which unit(s) will you teach this performance standard?** || Evolution ||


 * Performance Standard 4.4.12 C.3 Research the use of by-products that are the results of agriculture production (e.g. manure handling, bird feathers) **
 * **What will student achievement of this performance standard look like?** || Research and find an extinct species of a modern day descendant and compare the environments in which they lived in. Once environments have been compared students propose possible scientific accounts for their appearance. ||
 * **How will you assess student achievement of this performance standard?** || objective test, project, informal questioning ||
 * **What prior knowledge do students need to have to learn this performance standard?** || structure and function, genetics ||
 * **What instructional activities can be used effectively to teach this performance standard?** || direct instruction, video streaming, research ||
 * **How long will it take your students to achieve this performance standard?** || 2-3 days ||
 * **How will you ensure all students achieve this performance standard?** || remediation activities ||
 * **In which unit(s) will you teach this performance standard?** || evolution ||