Air Pollution
The Air Pollution Curriculum for the Jr.High/High School talks about pollution in the air around Sand Point.
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Jr. High & High School Environmental Curriculum
The Qagan Tayagungin Tribe Environmental Curriculum was composed in 2012 for the Environmental Teen Group in hopes to teach them information about Sand Point as a community and Alaska as a whole.
The Environmental Department updated the curriculum in 2014 with Air Pollution, Invasive Species, and Solid Waste Disposal/Recycling Curriculum.
The Jr. High & High School Curriculum consists of 16 components. The components of the curriculum are: Animal Kingdom, Biodiversity, Contaminates, Dust, Ecology, Ecosystems, Ecosystem Impacts, Environment, Habitat, Marine Debris, Natural Resources, Pollution, Salt Water Marshes, Water Cycle, Water Pollution and Wetlands.
The Environmental Department updated the curriculum in 2014 with Air Pollution, Invasive Species, and Solid Waste Disposal/Recycling Curriculum.
The Jr. High & High School Curriculum consists of 16 components. The components of the curriculum are: Animal Kingdom, Biodiversity, Contaminates, Dust, Ecology, Ecosystems, Ecosystem Impacts, Environment, Habitat, Marine Debris, Natural Resources, Pollution, Salt Water Marshes, Water Cycle, Water Pollution and Wetlands.
Animal Kingdom
The animal kingdom curriculum was composed to teach the youth about the different types of living things around our community.
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Biodiversity
Biodiversity is the measure of the variety and number of different living organisms that are present in a particular ecological system..
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Contaminates
Contaminates are a substance that are where they shouldn't be and is at, just like pollution, a high enough level to affect our health or the health of the environment.
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Dust
Dust is any solid particle in the air under 500 micrometers in diameter.
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Ecology
Ecology is the scientific study of interactions of organisms with one another and with the physical chemical environment.
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Ecosystems
An ecosystem is a complex of living organisms and their non-living environment linked by a flow of energy and cycling of materials.
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Ecosystem Impacts
Ecosystem Impacts are changes which come from three sources: physical elements (floods, drought, volcanos), biological elements (insects killing trees), and human caused change (clearing forests, etc.)
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Environment
An environment is the sum total of all surroundings of a living organism, including natural forces and other living things.
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Habitat
A habitat is the natural environment of an organism, or natural environmental in which an organism can grow.
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Invasive Species
The Invasive Species Curriculum talks about what invasive means, invasive plants around Sand Point.
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Marine Debris
Marine debris is any man-made object discarded, disposed of, or abandoned that enters the coastal or marine environment.
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Natural Resources
Natural resources are natural materials that are collected from the Earth.
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Pollution
Pollution is an undesirable state of the natural environment being contaminated with harmful substances as a result of human activity.
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Salt Water Marshes
Salt Water Marshes are coastal wetlands on the edges of estuaries where fresh water mixes with sea water.
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Solid Waste Disposal/Recycling
The Solid Waste Disposal/Recycling Curriculum talks about what recycling and solid waste is.
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Water Cycle
The water cycle is the journey water takes as it circulates from the land to the sky and back again.
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Water Pollution
Water pollution is a large set of adverse effects upon water bodies such as lakes, rivers, oceans, and ground water caused by human activities.
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Wetlands
A wetland is an area where water covers the soil, or is present either at or near the surface of the soil all year or for a long period of time during the year.
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