How BASIN Learning & Service Community Meets Educational Standards

The educational materials included in the BASIN website will give students the opportunity to develop competency in the following science and geography standards: 

SCIENCE STANDARDS (Boulder Valley School District Standards) 

• Standard #1: Students understand the processes of scientific investigation and are able to design, conduct, communicate about, and evaluate such investigation.
• Standard #3: 
• 3.1 Students investigate the diversity, physical characteristics, and life processes of organisms.
• Standard #4: 
• 4.2 Students know and understand the general characteristics of the atmosphere, including climate and fundamental processes of weather.
• 4.3 Students know and understand major sources of water, its uses and importance, and its cyclic patterns of movement through the environment.
• Standard #5: Students know and evaluate interrelationships among science, technology, and human activity and how they can affect the world.
• Standard #6: Students understand that science involves a particular way of knowing and understanding common connections among different scientific disciplines.
• Standard #7: Students know how to appropriately select and safely and effectively use tools (including laboratory materials, equipment and electronic resources) to conduct scientific investigations.

The geographicaly informed person knows and understands: 

• Standard #1: Using maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process and report information from a spatial perspective.
• Standard #2: Analyze the spatial organization of people, places and environments on Earth's surfaces.
• Standard #4: Physical and human characteristics of places.
• Standard #5: That people create regions to intepret Earth's complexity.
• Standard #6: The physical processes that shape the patterns of Earth's surface.
• Standard #13: How the forces of cooperation and conflict influence the division and control of the Earth's surface.
• Standard #14: How human actions modify the physical environment.
• Standard #15: How physical systems affect human systems.
• Standard #16: The changes that occur in the meaning, use, distribution and importance of resources.
• Standard #17: How to apply geography to interpret the past.
• Standard #18: How to apply geography to interpret the present and plan for the future.