Format
1. This program begins with an introduction to EarthEcho International and our guest host.
2. We then discuss fisheries, what it is and why it matters.
3. Participants learn about innovative solutions to increase sustainable fisheries.
4. Participants will learn what they can do for a sustainable future.
5. Time is allowed for questions and answers throughout the program..
Objectives
The participant will:
- understand the importance of fisheries;
- understand how their actions impact the environment, especially when fishing or consuming seafood;
- suggest improvement methods to solve the problem of by-catch, overfishing and more for my community and beyond.
Standards Alignment
National Standards
Next Generation Science Standards:
5-ESS3-1.
Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth’s resources and environment
MS-ESS3-3.
Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment
ESS3.C: Human Impacts on Earth Systems
Human activities in agriculture, industry, and everyday life have had major effects on the land, vegetation, streams, ocean, air, and even outer space. But individuals and communities are doing things to help protect Earth’s resources and environments.
3-5: Use evidence to construct or support an explanation or design a solution to a problem.
3-5: Generate and compare multiple solutions to a problem based on how well they meet the criteria and constraints of the design solution.
Australian Standards:
Technologies and Society –Investigate how people in design and technologies occupations address competing considerations, including sustainability, in the design of solutions for current and future use. (VCDSTS033)
Materials and Technologies Specializations – Investigate characteristics and properties of a range of materials, systems, components, tools, and equipment and evaluate the impact of their use. (VCDSTC037)
Examine and prioritize competing factors including social, ethical, economic, and sustainability considerations in the development of technologies and designed solutions to meet community needs for preferred futures. (VCDSTS043)
Investigate the ways in which designed solutions evolve locally, nationally, regionally, and globally through the creativity, innovation, and enterprise of individuals and groups. (VCDSTS044)
Technologies Contexts: materials and technologies specializations – Analyze ways to create designed solutions through selecting and combining characteristics and properties of materials, systems, components, tools, and equipment. (VCDSTC048)
Creating Designed Solutions: Investigating – Critique needs or opportunities for designing and investigate, analyze, and select from a range of materials, components, tools, equipment, and processes to develop design ideas. (VCDSCD049)
Generating: Generate, develop, and test design ideas, plans, and processes using appropriate technical terms and technologies including graphical representation techniques. (VCDSCD050)
Producing: Effectively and safely use a broad range of materials, components, tools, equipment, and techniques to produce designed solutions. (VCDSCD051)
Planning and Managing: Use project management processes to coordinate production of designed solutions. (VCDSCD053)
UK Science Standards:
KS3
Scientific attitude: To develop theories and peer assess work
Biology: Interactions and interdependencies
Relationships in an Ecosystem: the interdependence of organisms in an ecosystem, including food webs and insect pollinated crops
how organisms affect, and are affected by, their environment
KS
Working Scientifically: Experimental skills and strategies: making and recording observations and measurements using a range of apparatus and methods
evaluating methods and suggesting possible improvements and further investigations.
Biology:
Ecosystems
some abiotic and biotic factors which affect communities; the importance of interactions between organisms in a community
how materials cycle through abiotic and biotic components of ecosystems
the role of microorganisms (decomposers) in the cycling of materials through an ecosystem
organisms are interdependent and are adapted to their environment
the importance of biodiversity
positive and negative human interactions with ecosystems