"From Rain to the Drain"
6th-8th Grades
Science
6.6- The student knows that there is a relationship between force and motion.
C- Identify forces that shape features of the Earth including uplifting, movement of water, and volcanic activity.
6.14- The student knows the structures and functions of Earth systems.
B- Identify relationships between groundwater and surface water in a watershed.
Social Studies
6.4- Geography- The student understands the characteristics and relative locations of major historical and contemporary societies.
B- Identify and explain the geographic factors responsible for patterns of population in places and regions
6.5- Geography- The student understands how geographic factors influence the economic development, political relationships and policies of societies.
A- Explain factors such as location, physical features, transportation corridors and barriers and distribution of natural resources that influence the economic development and foreign policies of societies.
6.7- Geography- The student understands the impact of interactions between people and the physical environment on the development of places and regions.
B- Identify and analyze ways people have modified the physical environment.
6.20- Science, technology and society- The student understands the relationships among science and technology and political, economic and social issues and events.
B- Explain how resources, belief systems, economic factors, and political decisions have affected the use of technology from place to place, culture to culture and society to society.
C- Make predictions about future social, economic and environmental consequences that may result from future scientific discoveries and technological innovations.
Science
7.12- The student knows that there is a relationship between organisms and the environment.
A- Identify components of an ecosystem.
C- Describe how different environments support different varieties of organisms.
D- Observe and describe the role of ecological succession in an ecosystem.
7.14- The student knows that natural events and human activity can alter Earth systems.
B- Analyze effects of regional erosion deposition and weathering.
C- Make inferences and draw conclusions about effects of human activity on Earth's renewable, non-renewable and inexhaustible resources.
Social Studies
7.10- Geography- The student understands the effects of the interactions between humans and the environment in Texas during the 19th and 20th centuries.
B- Explain ways in which geographic factors have affected the political, economic and social development of Texas.
7.20- Science, Technology and Society- The student understands the impact of scientific discoveries and technological innovations on the political, economic and social development of Texas.
F- Make predictions about economic, social and environmental consequences that may result from future scientific discoveries and technological innovations.
Science
8.4- The student knows how to use a variety of tools and methods to conduct science inquiry.
A- Collect, record, and analyze information using tools including beakers, petri dishes, meter sticks, graduated cylinders, weather instruments, hot plates, dissecting equipment, test tubes, safety goggles, spring scales, balances, microscopes, telescopes, thermometers, calculators, field equipment, computers, computer probes, water test kits and timing devices.
8.14- The student knows that natural events and human activities can alter Earth systems.
A- Predict land features resulting from gradual changes such as mountain building, beach erosion, land subsidence and continental drift.
C- Describe how human activities have modified soil, water and air quality.
Social Studies
8.12- Geography- The student understands the physical characteristics of the United States during the 18th and 19th centuries and how humans adapted to and modified the environment.
A- Analyze how physical characteristics of the environment influenced population distribution, settlement patterns, and economic activities in the US during the 18th and 19th centuries.
B- Describe the consequences of human modification of the physical environment of the US.
C- Describe how different immigrant groups interacted with the environment in the US during the 18th and 19th centuries.
8.29- Science, Technology and Society- The student understands the impact of scientific discoveries and technological innovations on daily life in the US.
A- Compare the effects of scientific discoveries and technological innovations that have influenced daily life in different periods in US history.
B- Describe how scientific ideas influenced technological developments during different periods in US history.
