Modern aquaculture production requires a wide range of skill sets from various disciplines, including mathematics, biology, chemistry, engineering and agriculture. As a highly diversified and expanding sector of agriculture, aquaculture offers a multitude of educational opportunities for students of all ages, ranging from classroom lectures to intensive hands-on technical training. The following list shows some of the standards that can be met through aquaculture curriculum.
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Language Arts and English Language Development
- ELD.K12.ELL.MA: English language learners communicate information, ideas and concepts necessary for academic success in the content area of Mathematics.
- ELD.K12.ELL.SC: English language learners communicate information, ideas and concepts necessary for academic success in the content area of science.
- LAFS.K12.W.1.1: Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.
- LAFS.K12.W.1.2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.
- LAFS.K12.W.3.7: Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects based on focused questions, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.
- LAFS.K12.W.3.8: Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, assess the credibility and accuracy of each source, and integrate the information while avoiding plagiarism.
- LAFS.K12.W.3.9: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
- LAFS.68.RST.1.3: Follow precisely a multistep procedure when carrying out experiments, taking measurements, or performing technical tasks.
- LAFS.910.RST.3.7: Translate quantitative or technical information expressed in words in a text into visual form (e.g., a table or chart) and translate information expressed visually or mathematically (e.g., in an equation) into words.
- LAFS.910.RST.3.9: Compare and contrast findings presented in a text to those from other sources (including their own experiments), noting when the findings support or contradict previous explanations or accounts.
- LAFS.1112.RST.2.8: Evaluate the hypotheses, data, analysis, and conclusions in a science or technical text, verifying the data when possible and corroborating or challenging conclusions with other sources of information.
- LAFS.1112.RST.3.9: Synthesize information from a range of sources (e.g., texts, experiments, simulations) into a coherent understanding of a process, phenomenon or concept, resolving conflicting information when possible.
Mathematics
- MAFS.K12.MP.2.1: Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
- MAFS.K12.MP.3.1: Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
- MAFS.K12.MP.4.1, MAFS.K12.MP.7.1: Look for and make use of structure.
- MAFS.K12.MP.1.1: Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
- MAFS.7.SP.1, 2, 3: Use random sampling to draw inferences about a population. Use random sampling to draw inferences about two populations. Investigate chance processes and develop, use and evaluate probability models.
- MAFS.8.SP.1: Investigate patterns of association in bivariate data.
- MAFS.912.S-ID.1, 2, 3: Summarize, represent and interpret data on a single count or measurement variable. Summarize, represent and interpret data on two categorical and quantitative variables. Interpret linear models.
- MAFS.912.S-IS.1, 2: Understand and evaluate random processes underlying statistical experiments. Make inferences and justify conclusions from sample surveys, experiments and observational studies.
Science
- SC.6.L.15.1: Analyze and describe how and why organisms are classified according to shared characteristics with emphasis on the Linnaean system combined with the concept of domains.
- SC.68.CS-CP.1.2: Select and use data-collection technology (e.g., probes, handheld devices, geographic mapping systems and output from multiple runs of a computer program) to gather, view, organize, analyze and report results for content-related problems, individually and collaboratively.
- SC.7.L.15.2: Explore the scientific theory of evolution by recognizing and explaining ways in which genetic variation and environmental factors contribute to evolution by natural selection and diversity of organisms.
- SC.7.L.15.3: Explore the scientific theory of evolution by relating how the inability of a species to adapt within a changing environment may contribute to the extinction of that species.
- SC.7.L.16.3: Compare and contrast the general processes of sexual reproduction requiring meiosis and asexual reproduction requiring mitosis.
- SC.912.CS-CS.1-4: Analyze data and identify real-world patterns through modeling and simulation. Formulate, refine and test scientific hypotheses using models and simulations. Explain how data analysis is used to enhance the understanding of complex natural and human systems. Compare techniques for analyzing massive data collections.
- SC.912.L.14-18: Organization and development of living organisms. Diversity and evolution of living organisms. Heredity and reproduction. Interdependence. Matter and energy transformations.
- SC.912.N 1-4: The practice of science. The characteristics of scientific knowledge. The role of theories, laws, hypotheses and models. Science and society.
Social Studies
- SS.8.E.1.1: Examine motivating economic factors that influenced the development of the United States economy over time including scarcity, supply and demand, opportunity costs, incentives, profits, and entrepreneurial aspects.
- SS.8.G.3.2: Use geographic terms and tools to explain differing perspectives on the use of renewable and non-renewable resources in the United States and Florida over time.
- SS.8.G.5.1: Describe human dependence on the physical environment and natural resources to satisfy basic needs in local environments in the United States.
- SS.8.G.5.2: Describe the impact of human modifications on the physical environment and ecosystems of the United States throughout history.
- SS.912.E.1.2: Analyze production possibilities curves to explain choice, scarcity, and opportunity costs.
- SS.912.E.1.4: Define supply, demand, quantity supplied, and quantity demanded; graphically illustrate situations that would cause changes in each, and demonstrate how the equilibrium price of a product is determined by the interaction of supply and demand in the market place.
- SS.912.W.9.1: Identify major scientific figures and breakthroughs of the 20th century, and assess their impact on contemporary life.
