Curriculum Alignment for North Carolina Standard Course of Study (8th Grade Science)

The segment Ocean Observing is aligned to NCSCS's 8th grade science curriculum in the following areas:

1.01 – Identify and create questions and hypotheses that can be answered through scientific investigations.

1.05 – Analyze evidence to:  explain observations, and make inferences and predictions.

1.06 – Use math to gather, organize, and present quantitative data: analysis of data and prediction models.

1.09 – Use technologies and information systems to research, gather and analyze data, and visualize data.

2.02 – Use information systems to identify scientific needs, human needs, or problems that are subject to technological solutions.

3.03 – Evaluate evidence that Earth’s oceans are a reservoir of nutrients, minerals, dissolved gases, and life forms.

3.04 – Describe how terrestrial and aquatic food webs are interconnected.

3.05 – Analyze hydrospheric data over time to predict the health of a water system including:  temperature, dissolved oxygen, and turbidity.

3.06 – Evaluate technologies and information systems used to monitor the hydrosphere.

3.07 – Describe how humans affect the quality of water:  point and non-point sources of water pollution, possible effects of excess nutrients, and economic trade-offs.

3.08 – Recognize that the good health of environments and organisms requires:  monitoring the hydrosphere, water quality standards, maintaining safe water quality, and stewardship.