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K-12 Scope and Sequence Concept Flow Diagrams

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There is a Conceptual Flow Diagram (CFD) for each of the seven Essential Principles and the four grade bands (K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12).

Essential Principle 4: The ocean makes Earth habitable.

Grade Bands and Topics

Use the links on the following table to go to either the CFD for a particular grade band for this particular Principle (by clicking on the grade band link in the left column) or (coming soon) a CFD containing a particular topic (by clicking on the topic label).

Grade Band

Principle 4: The ocean makes Earth habitable.

Origins of Life

Oxygen Production

K-2

  1. Water is necessary for life
  2. Where water is on Earth

 

 

3-5

  1. Bacteria
  2. Fossil evidence
  3. Life started in the ocean
  1. Earth’s atmosphere
  2. Photosynthesis

 

6-8

  1. Chloroplast
  2. Cyanobacteria
  3. Fossil evidence
  4. Life started in the ocean
  5. Ocean sediments
  6. Theory of evolution
  1. Cyanobacteria
  2. Earth’s atmosphere
  3. Oxygen consumption
  4. Ozone
  5. Photosynthesis
  6. Respiration and decay

 

9-12

  1. Fossil evidence
  2. Life started in the ocean
  3. Hydrothermal vents
  4. Prokaryotes and eukaryotes
  5. Theory of evolution
  1. Aerobic respiration
  2. Balance of oxygen and carbon dioxide
  3. Cyanobacteria
  4. Decay
  5. Dissolved oxygen
  6. Earth’s atmosphere
  7. Photosynthesis
  8. Oxidation
  9. Ozone

 

 

 

Fundamental Concepts and Grade Bands

Each Essential Principle has several Fundamental Concepts associated with it. The Ocean Literacy Alignment Matrices show how the Conceptual Flow Diagrams in the Scope and Sequence align with the 7 Essential Ocean Literacy Principles and 44 Fundamental Concepts.

There is one matrix for each principle with the grade bands running horizontally across the top and the fundamental concepts for that principle running vertically along the left column. There are three levels of alignment.

[blank]= no alignment
x = mentions concepts
X = addresses concepts in depth

Placing the cursor over the labels for the Fundamental Concepts in the left column will open a small text window while clicking on the label will open a screen with all the Fundamental Concepts for this Essential Principle. You can access the CFD for particular grade bands by clicking on the grade band labels in the second row.

Fundamental
Concepts

Principle 4: The ocean makes Earth habitable.

K-2

3-5

6-8

9-12

4a

 

x

X

X

4b

 

x

X

X

 

 

December 4, 2009