• STEELS Standards Relevant to Dragonfly Farm programming

How Goes the Stream?

  • Natural Hazards

    • 3.3.6-8.L - Analyze and interpret data on natural hazards to forecast future catastrophic events and inform the development of technologies to mitigate their effects.

  • Human Impact on Earth Systems

    • 3.3.6-8.M - Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing human impact on the environment.

  • Environmental Literacy Skills - Environmental Experiences

    • 3.4.6-8.E - Collect, analyze, and interpret environmental data to describe a local environment.

    • 3.4.9-12.E - Plan and conduct an investigation utilizing environmental data about a local environmental issue.

Understanding the Landscape Around You

  • Cycles of Matter and Energy Transfer in Ecosystems

    • 3.1.6-8.K - Develop a model to describe the cycling of matter and flow of energy among living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem.

    • 3.1.9-12.K - Develop a model to illustrate the role of photosynthesis and cellular respiration in the cycling of carbon among the biosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and geosphere.

  • Ecosystem Dynamics, Functioning, and Resilience

    • 3.1.6-8.L - Construct an argument supported by empirical evidence that changes to physical or biological components of an ecosystem affect populations.

    • 3.1.9-12.N - Design, evaluate, and refine a solution for reducing the impacts of human activities on the environment and biodiversity.

  • Adaptation

    • 3.1.9-12.V - Create or revise a simulation to test a solution to mitigate the adverse impacts of human activity on biodiversity.

  • Biodiversity and Humans

    • 3.1.6-8.U - Evaluate competing design solutions for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services.

Overall

  • Agricultural and Environmental Systems and Resources - Watershed and Wetlands

    • 3.4.6-8.C - Develop a model to describe how watersheds and wetlands function as systems, including the roles and functions they serve.

    • 3.4.9-12.C - Analyze and interpret how issues, trends, technologies, and policies impact watersheds and water resources.

  • Environmental Literacy Skills - Environmental Experiences

    • 3.4.6-8.E - Collect, analyze, and interpret environmental data to describe a local environment.

    • 3.4.9-12.E - Plan and conduct an investigation utilizing environmental data about a local environmental issue.

  • Sustainability and Stewardship - Environmental Stewardship

    • 3.4.6-8.H - Design a solution to an environmental issue in which individuals and societies can engage as stewards of the environment.

    • 3.4.9-12.H - Design and evaluate solutions in which individuals and societies can promote stewardship in environmental quality and community well-being.