Environmental+Health+Issues+12

**Grade 12 Environmental Health**
 * 4.3.12 A. Analyze the complexity of environmental health issues. **


 * Performance Standard 4.3.12 A.1 Identify environmental health issues and explain how they have been addressed at a worldwide level. **
 * **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 4.3.12 A.2 Analyze efforts to prevent, control, and reduce pollution through cost and benefit analysis and risk management. **
 * **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 4.3.12 A.3 Describe the impact of occupational exposures as they relate to environmental health issues. **
 * **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 ||


 * Performance Standard 4.3.12 A.4 Identify invisible pollutants and explain their efforts on human health. **
 * **What will student achievement of this performance standard look like?** || Students will describe a particular gene in a population and describe how the frequency has been affected due to isolation and differential reproduction ||
 * **How will you assess student achievement of this performance standard?** || Objective test, graphic organizer ||
 * **What prior knowledge do students need to have to learn this performance standard?** || genetics ||
 * **What instructional activities can be used effectively to teach this performance standard?** || direct instruction, group collaboration ||
 * **How long will it take your students to achieve this performance standard?** || 4 days ||
 * **How will you ensure all students achieve this performance standard?** || remediation activites ||
 * **In which unit(s) will you teach this performance standard?** || evolution ||


 * Performance Standard 4.3.12 A.5 Explain the relationship between wind direction and velocity as it relates to dispersal and occurence of pollutants. **
 * **What will student achievement of this performance standard look like?** || Students will be able to ||
 * **How will you assess student achievement of this performance standard?** ||  ||
 * **What prior knowledge do students need to have to learn this performance standard?** || genetics ||
 * **What instructional activities can be used effectively to teach this performance standard?** || direct instruction, video streaming ||
 * **How long will it take your students to achieve this performance standard?** || 5 days ||
 * **How will you ensure all students achieve this performance standard?** || remediation activities ||
 * **In which unit(s) will you teach this performance standard?** || evolution ||


 * Performance Standard 4.3.12 A.6 Explain the different disposal methods used for toxic and hazardous waste. **
 * **What will student achievement of this performance standard look like?** ||  ||
 * **How will you assess student achievement of this performance standard?** || objective tests ||
 * **What prior knowledge do students need to have to learn this performance standard?** || genetics ||
 * **What instructional activities can be used effectively to teach this performance standard?** || direct instruction, collaborative groups,research ||
 * **How long will it take your students to achieve this performance standard?** || 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 ||