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Final Physical Science Module Assessment

This teacher guide provides resources and guiding questions for a physical science lesson on analyzing the environmental impacts of Hurricane Katrina using data from the Apalachicola National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR) in Florida. Students will download abiotic data from 2005 for three monitoring stations in the NERR and examine how the hurricane affected various parameters. The teacher provides suggested guiding questions to help students analyze patterns in the data and understand how the storm impacted organisms, habitats, and humans through changes in the environmental parameters.

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Final Physical Science Module Assessment

This teacher guide provides resources and guiding questions for a physical science lesson on analyzing the environmental impacts of Hurricane Katrina using data from the Apalachicola National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR) in Florida. Students will download abiotic data from 2005 for three monitoring stations in the NERR and examine how the hurricane affected various parameters. The teacher provides suggested guiding questions to help students analyze patterns in the data and understand how the storm impacted organisms, habitats, and humans through changes in the environmental parameters.

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Teacher Guide—Physical Science

Module

1. Have students download 2005 abiotic data for 2. Suggested guiding questions for students:
Apalachicola NERR in Florida and examine the Look at your graphs for the sites and use
changes wrought by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. these questions as a guide to your analysis.
Have students download 2005 data from the data a. Can you determine the dates that Katrina
graphing tool on http://estuaries.noaa.gov/
impacted the NERR?
ScienceData/Graphing.aspx for three stations in the
NERR: Dry Bar, East Bay, and Cat Point. Or b. Describe the general pattern of values for each
download the data yourself, and print and copy it for
students. abiotic parameter over that time span.

c. What is the range of values for each parameter in


the NERR?

d. Which parameter had the greatest change due


the storm? Give a reason for why this parameter
changed so much.

e. What might cause the variations from station to


station that you observed? Think about factors
that influence this parameter, and how they
might change.

f. What questions do you have about this graph?


For example, would data from another parame-
ter help explain the variation in this graph?

g. What additional information do you need to an-


swer your questions?

h. What impacts on organisms,


Figure 1. Apalachicola NERR region with monitoring stations. habitats, or human life did the
variation of this parameter cause?

Life Science Module—Final Assessment

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