Students will investigate and gain better understanding of:
- Spectrophotometry
- Fish dissection
- Sampling
- Phytoplankton and Zooplankton
- Water quality

National Standards Met:
● CCSS.Math.Content.6.RP.A.1 Understand the concept
of a ratio and use ratio language to describe a ratio relationship between two quantities.
● CCSS.Math.Content.6.RP.A.2 Understand the concept of a unit rate 𝑎/𝑏 associated with a ratio 𝑎:𝑏 with 𝑏 ≠ 0, and use rate language in the context of a ratio relationship.
● CCSS.Math.Content.6.RP.A.3.a Make tables of equivalent ratios relating quantities with whole-number measurements, find missing values in the tables, and plot the pairs of values on the coordinate plane. Use tables to compare ratios.
● MS-LS1-6. Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for the role of 
photosynthesis in the cycling of matter and flow of energy into and out of 
organisms.
● MS-LS2-1 – Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of 
resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an 
ecosystem.
● MS-LS2-2 – Construct an explanation that predicts patterns of interactions 
among organisms across multiple ecosystems.
● MS-LS2-3 – Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics. Develop a 
model to describe the cycling of matter and flow of energy among living and 
nonliving parts of an ecosystem.
● MS-LS2-4 – Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics. Construct an 
argument supported by empirical evidence that changes to physical or 
biological components of an ecosystem affect populations