Relevant+National+and+State+Standards+for+Ecology

Relevant National and State Standards for Ecology and Stewardship Unit of Biology Course:
 * 1) Cycling of Matter & one-way flow of Energy through ecosystems.
 * //Know how water, carbon, and nitrogen cycle between abiotic resources and organic matter in an ecosystem and how oxygen cycles through photosnythesis and respiration //. (CASS Life Science 6.d)
 * 1) Sustainability & Carrying Capacity of living systems.
 * //Analyze changes in an ecosystem resulting from changes in climate, human activity, introduction of nonnative species, or changes in population size. (CASS Life Science 6.b) //
 * //Know how fluctuations in population size in an ecosystem are determined by the relative rates of birth, immigration, emigration, and death. (CASS Life Science 6.c) //
 * 1) Ecosystem structure and function.
 * //Know a vital part of an ecosystem is the stability of its producers and decomposers. (CASS Life Science 6.e) //
 * //Know at each link in a food web some energy is stored in newly made structures but much energy is dissipated into the environment as heat. This dissipation may be represented in an energy pyramid. (CASS Life Science 6.f) //
 * 1) Connectedness... both of science and student to natural world (Biophilia)
 * //Know biodiversity is the sum total of different kinds of organisms and is affected by alterations of habitats. (CASS Life Science 6.a) //
 * 1) Stewardship & Environmental Ethics & the Precautionary Principle
 * Open to Growth; Developing as a Leader; Committed to Justice (Grad-at-Grad)
 * //Know how to distinguish between the accommodation of an individual organism to its environment and the gradual adaptation of a lineage of organisms through genetic change. (CASS Life Science 6.g) //