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# Ocean Food Webs Module

The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) addressed by this module include:

### NGSS Disciplinary Core Ideas

        -  HS-LS1.C - From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes - Organization for Matter and Energy Flow in Organisms 
        -  HS-LS2 - Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics 
        LS2.A - Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems
LS2.B - Cycles of Matter and Energy Transfer in Ecosystems
LS2.C - Ecosystem Dynamics, Functioning, and Resilience

        -  HS-LS4.D - Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity - Biodiversity and Humans 
        -  HS-ESS3 Earth and Human Activity 
        ESS3.A - Natural Resources
ESS3.C - Human Impacts on Earth Systems

### NGSS Science and Engineering Practices

        -  **Developing and using models:** students use the trophic pyramid (conceptual model) and VES-V software (computer model), and create a food web (conceptual model). 
        -  **Analyzing and interpreting data:** students analyze data about individual organisms to construct a food web, and analyze biomass data from VES-V to make inferences about trophic levels in the Gulf of Maine and Monterey Bay habitats. 
        -  **Using mathematics and computational thinking:** students collect biomass data from VES-V and formulate hypotheses based on numerical ratios. 
        -  **Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information:** students gather and share information to build a food web, and gather and evaluate biomass data from VES-V. 

### NGSS Crosscutting Concepts

        -  **Patterns:** Observed patterns of forms and events guide organization and classification, and they prompt questions about relationships and the factors that influence them. 
        -  **Scale, proportion, and quantity:** In considering phenomena, it is critical to recognize what is relevant at different measures of size, time, and energy and to recognize how changes in scale, proportion, or quantity affect a system’s structure or performance. 
        -  **Systems and system models:** Defining the system under study—specifying its boundaries and making explicit a model of that system—provides tools for understanding and testing ideas that are applicable throughout science and engineering. 
        -  **Energy and matter:** Flows, cycles, and conservation. Tracking fluxes of energy and matter into, out of, and within systems helps one understand the systems’ possibilities and limitations 

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