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ENS1040 Living With The Environment

Introductory · 1 credit · NAT - Natural Resources

Description
Students develop an understanding of how humans interact with their natural and built environments. Students also investigate methods to monitor and measure the quality of natural and built environments in order to maintain healthy and sustainable environments.
Prerequisite
None

Outcomes The student will:

  • 1 investigate and describe relationships between humans and their environments

    • 1.1 identify the basic human needs; e.g., subsistence, protection, affection, understanding, participation, leisure, creation, identity and freedom

    • 1.2 illustrate how natural and built environments meet human needs

    • 1.3 describe examples of interactions and interdependencies within natural and built environments

    • 1.4 identify examples of human impacts on natural and built environments and the reasons for them based on human wants and needs

    • 1.5 analyze how attitudes, skills and knowledge are used to inform personal and public decisions regarding human impacts on natural and built environments; e.g., scientific, economic, political, cultural

  • 2 investigate and describe the role of different biological and chemical factors that impact environments

    • 2.1 identify examples of common biological and chemical factors that are needed to maintain healthy natural and built environments; e.g., bacteria in soil, oxygen in water, humidity indoors

    • 2.2 describe and illustrate how materials enter a system and their impacts on living things in natural and built environments and how their concentrations are changed

    • 2.3 identify concerns when deciding what substances and what quantities of a substance can be released into natural and built environments to ensure sustainability

  • 3 analyze and evaluate processes affecting the distribution of potentially harmful substances within environments; e.g., wind and water currents, soil porosity

    • 3.1 describe processes that transfer materials through air, soil and water in natural and built environments

    • 3.2 describe processes for and factors affecting biodegradation

    • 3.3 analyze and interpret information on the impacts of hazardous materials in natural and built environments

    • 3.4 describe and evaluate a method to transport, store, dispose of and neutralize a hazardous substance

  • 4 demonstrate processes for measuring and monitoring the quality of air, soil and water in environments

    • 4.1 identify common biological and chemical factors that affect the quality of air, water and soil in natural and built environments

    • 4.2 describe and participate in the use of biological and chemical monitoring to determine environmental quality

  • 5 describe the relationship between attitudes, skills, knowledge, decisions and actions in maintaining healthy environments

    • 5.1 identify intended and unintended consequences of human activities within natural and built environments; e.g., forest fire and controlled burns, land reclamation

    • 5.2 describe and interpret examples of scientific investigations used to inform environmental decision making

    • 5.3 discuss the limits of scientific and technological knowledge in making decisions regarding natural and built environments

  • 6 demonstrate basic competencies

    • 6.1 demonstrate fundamental skills to:

      • 6.1.1 communicate

      • 6.1.2 manage information

      • 6.1.3 use numbers

      • 6.1.4 think and solve problems

    • 6.2 demonstrate personal management skills to:

      • 6.2.1 demonstrate positive attitudes and behaviours

      • 6.2.2 be responsible

      • 6.2.3 be adaptable

      • 6.2.4 learn continuously

      • 6.2.5 work safely

    • 6.3 demonstrate teamwork skills to:

      • 6.3.1 work with others

      • 6.3.2 participate in projects and tasks

  • 7 make personal connections to the cluster content and processes to inform possible pathway choices

    • 7.1 complete/update a personal inventory; e.g., interests, values, beliefs, resources, prior learning and experiences

    • 7.2 create a connection between a personal inventory and occupational choices

Program of Studies 2010. Source document, © Alberta Education.