Indiana Science HS-ENV2-7
The Standard
Analyze computational tools and other technologies that allow for the management of natural resources. Evaluate the trade-offs of these tools regarding human physical and cultural needs versus sustainability and biodiversity.
Indiana Academic Standards for Science (2023) · Flow of Matter and Energy
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students use maps, sensors, or spreadsheets to compare ways to manage water or land. They check what each tool measures and misses, then weigh human needs, cultural practices, long-term supply, and wildlife impacts.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Given reservoir data, a student calculates how much water reaches farms and a river under two plans. They use the results to explain effects on crops, salmon habitat, and tribal fishing access, then name an assumption in the model.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat a model's fish estimate as a fact, even when it leaves out drought or migration barriers. They may count crop water as the only human need or assume taking more water for farms has no downstream effect.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: A 100-unit reservoir model gives farms 70 units and a salmon passage score of 20 under Plan A, versus 40 units and a score of 80 under Plan B. Choose a plan, explain its effects on crops, salmon, and tribal fishing access, and name one thing the model leaves out.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a printed watershed map, soil moisture readings, and 10 water tokens; have them allocate water between farms and salmon habitat.
Ask, 'If a water model raises crop yields but reduces salmon passage, whose needs are counted, and whose are missing?'
Run three spreadsheet rounds with changing rainfall totals; teams allocate reservoir water and track farm supply, salmon passage, and remaining storage.
Project the U.S. Drought Monitor map for your state; students name one water restriction it might support and ask whether it shows tribal fishing access.
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