Week 8 Task #2 Water Quality, Learning Activities, Desired Learning Outcomes

Desired Learning Outcomes:
By the end of this lesson, students should be able to . . .
1. Identify the key factors that influence water quality.
2. Explain how human activities can alter the balance of water ecosystem and affect the survival of organisms.
3. Identify the relationships among factors affecting water quality.
4. Explain how a factor affects the living organisms in a water ecosystem.
5. Use credible cyber resources for data collection.
6. Use ICTs to facilitate the process of identifying scientifically testable questions and locating valuable and accurate information.
7. Use ICTs to support data organization, data analysis, and data presentation, and draw conclusions.
8. Use ICTs to communicate findings to the learning community using various media formats.

Learning Activities:
1. Research factors, using the Internet, to find creditable sources that explain the affect on water quality human activities have.
2. Create a spreadsheet comparing the relationship of dissolved oxygen levels and water temperature.
3. Convert spreadsheet to chart, and discuss the correlation of the two factors.
4. Formulate their own hypothesis to investigate about water quality.
5. Support their hypothesis and draw conclusions based on their research.
6. Present their findings to the class.