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2024-2025

Students should be able to explain and appraise the value of wetlands to ecosystems, including humans
Students should be able to explain the importance of estuaries, including their importance to people.
Student should be able to propose ways to maintain water quality within a watershed.
Students should be able to explain the factors that affect water quality in a watershed and how those factors can affect an ecosystem.
Students should be able to forecast potential water-related issues that may become important in the future.
Students should be able to locate and critique a media article or editorial (print or electronic) concerning water use or water quality and analyze and evaluate the science concepts involved.
Students should be able to argue for and against commercially developing a parcel of land containing a large wetland area.
Students should be able to design and defend a land-use model that minimizes negative impact.
Students should be able to measure, record, and analyze a variety of water quality indicators and describe what these mean to the health of an ecosystem.

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