Classroom Resource

Steve Trash Science: Who Let the Cows Out / Day-tuh vs Dat-uh

Subject Area

Science
Digital Literacy and Computer Science

Grade(s)

1, 3, 5, 6

Overview

Steve Trash teaches kids about science with fun and magic. The show is filmed in Alabama.

Water pollution is never good. It’s even worse when your neighborhood cow is making it. Steve discusses the many ways that farmers and ranchers work to keep streams and ponds free of pollution as one example of how everyone can play a role. Then Steve delves into how scientists collect and use data.

Digital Literacy and Computer Science (2018) Grade(s): 1

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Discuss the purpose of collecting and organizing data.

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Vocabulary

  • data
  • collection
  • information
  • graph

Knowledge

Students know:
  • data can be collected to give information.
  • data can be organized in various ways.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • determine appropriate situations to collect data.
  • determine a way to organize data they collect.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • data collection gives information.
  • the method chosen for organizing data is important.
Digital Literacy and Computer Science (2018) Grade(s): 3

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Describe examples of data sets or databases from everyday life.

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Vocabulary

  • database
  • data set

Knowledge

Students know:
  • examples of data sets.
  • examples of databases.
  • characteristics of data sets and databases.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • describe examples of databases from everyday life.
  • describe examples of data sets from everyday life.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • data sets and databases are part of everyday life.
  • data sets and databases are organized in a certain way for a certain purpose.
Science (2015) Grade(s): 5

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Collect and organize scientific ideas that individuals and communities can use to protect Earth’s natural resources and its environment (e.g., terracing land to prevent soil erosion, utilizing no-till farming to improve soil fertility, regulating emissions from factories and automobiles to reduce air pollution, recycling to reduce overuse of landfill areas).

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Vocabulary

  • Natural Resource
  • Scientific idea
  • Individual
  • Community
  • Terracing
  • Erosion
  • Soil
  • No-till farming
  • Fertility
  • Emissions
  • Pollution
  • Recycling
  • Landfill

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Human activities in agriculture, industry, and everyday life can have major effects, both positive and negative, on the land, vegetation, streams, ocean, air, and even outer space.
  • Individuals and communities are doing things to help protect Earth's resources and environments.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Obtain and combine information from books and/or other reliable media to explain how individuals and communities can protect Earth's natural resources and its environment.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Individual communities interact with components of environmental systems and can have both positive and negative effects.

Scientific and Engineering Practices

Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information

Crosscutting Concepts

Systems and System Models
Science (2015) Grade(s): 6

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Analyze evidence (e.g., databases on human populations, rates of consumption of food and other natural resources) to explain how changes in human population, per capita consumption of natural resources, and other human activities (e.g., land use, resource development, water and air pollution, urbanization) affect Earth’s systems.

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Vocabulary

  • Population
  • Per capita
  • Consumption
  • Natural resource
  • Environment
  • Earth's systems
  • Consequences

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Increases in the size of the human population or in the per capita consumption of a given population cause increases in the consumption of natural resources.
  • Natural resources are any naturally occurring substances or features of the environment that, while not created by human effort, can be exploited by humans to satisfy their needs or wants.
  • Per capita consumption is the average use per person within a population.
  • Natural resource consumption causes changes in Earth systems.
  • Engineered solutions alter the effects of human populations on Earth systems by changing the rate of natural resource consumption or reducing the effects of changes in Earth systems.
  • All human activity draws on natural resources and has both short and long-term consequences, positive as well as negative, for the health of people and the natural environment.
  • The consequences of increases in human populations and consumption of natural resources are described by science, but science does not make the decisions for the actions society takes.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Organize given evidence regarding changes in human population, changes in per capita consumption of natural resources, human activities, and Earth's systems to allow for analysis and interpretation.
  • Analyze the data to identify possible causal relationships between changes in human population, changes in per capita consumption of natural resources, human activities, and Earth's systems.
  • Interpret patterns observed from the data to provide causal accounts for events and make predictions for events by constructing explanations.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Human population growth affects natural resource consumption and natural resource consumption has an effect on Earth systems; therefore, changes in human populations have a causal role in changing Earth systems.
  • Typically as human populations and per-capita consumption of natural resources increase, so do the negative impacts on Earth unless the activities and technologies involved are engineered otherwise.

Scientific and Engineering Practices

Analyzing and Interpreting Data

Crosscutting Concepts

Cause and Effect
Link to Resource
https://www.pbs.org/video/who-let-the-cows-out-day-tuh-vs-dat-uh-cowuav/

CR Resource Type

Audio/Video

Resource Provider

PBS
Accessibility

Accessibility

Video resources: includes closed captioning or subtitles
License

License Type

CUSTOM

Custom License Type (URL)

https://www.pbs.org/about/about-pbs/terms-of-use/

Comments or Notes

In the first half of the video, students will learn how human activities, such as raising livestock, can negatively impact Earth's freshwater supply. Steve Trash will discuss ways that people can prevent water pollution. In the second half of the video, students will learn how data can be collected and retrieved in databases. Steve Trash will describe databases that students experience in everyday life, such as the school library catalog and school records.

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