Week	Bloom level	Question	I could answer this question well and in its entirety.	I could answer this question partially or with help.	I could not answer this question today.
1	2	Explain the history of the landscape between Delehanty Hall and the Winooski River
1	3	Read UTM coordinates of a point on a map
1	3	Program a GPS to find a specific point on a map using UTM coordinates
1	2	Explain how GPS works
1	3	Use a GPS to map locations in the field
1	3	Plot a GPS-derived location on a map using UTM coordinates
1	3	Measure a distance on a map
1	3	Measure a distance using GPS
1	2	Explain the UTM coordinate system
1	2	Explain the symbols on a topographic map
1	3	Read elevation from a topographic map
1	2	Understand map datums and explain why they are important
1	3	Go to a specific point in the field using a GPS
1	5	Use an example to explain how hillslopes, streams, and rivers are linked in a continuum
1	5	Using a variety of disparete field data and observations hindcast how the Burlington landscape has changed over the last 15,000 years
1	1	Give an example of how people influence landscapes
1	1	Give an example of how landscapes influence people
1	5	Use photographic images as a data source to understand landscape process, pattern, and history
2	1	Use the Learning Landscapes web site
2	5	Parse the visual content of a photograph
2	2	Explain how a hydroelectric plant works
2	2	Explain how a sewage treatment plant works
2	2	Explain how a sewage treatment plant affects a river both biotically and abiotically
2	2	Explain how a hydroelectric plant effects a river both biotically and abiotically
2	1	Give examples of how dams affect a river outside of Vermont
2	1	Give 10 examples of how rivers are used by people
2	1	Give 3 examples of how mass transfer happens in a river system
2	1	List 3 ways people have changed river function
2	1	List 3 ways people have changed river form
3	1	Identify 5 major fluvial landforms both in photographs and in the field
3	1	Recognize field and photographic evidence for past changes in river discharge
3	1	Define river stage
3	1	Define river discharge
3	1	Identify current and past uses of rivers in the field and from photographic images
3	1	Identify and describe 3 ways in which rivers impact human constructs
3	3	Knowing you are standing on a cut bank, predict where the point bar would be found
3	5	After paddling down a river, create a coherent story of its landscape based on field evidence you saw from the canoe
3	4	Describe how the Winooski River functions as a link between the land and Lake Champlain
3	3	Give 3 examples of field evidence that can be used to demonstrate that rivers are dynamic systems changing over time.
4	3	Use an autolevel to survey a stream channel
4	2	Explain how an autolevel works
4	3	Gather field and laboratory data sufficient to calculate stream discharge for water, sediment, and dissolved load
4	3	Use Manning's equation to calculate a roughness coefficient
4	2	Explain how the flux of mass down a river changes over time
4	4	Do dimensional analysis
4	5	Use a simple mathematical model to portray a complex natural system
4	3	Recognize and predict river flow patterns in the field based on channel morphology.
4	3	Identify bankful flow level in the field
4		Identify, in the field, evidence for the elevation of past floods
5	3	Identify location of now vanished mill dams in the field
5	3	Recognize sediments impounded behind mill dams
5	2	Describe the importance of woody debris in controlling sediment transport
5	2	Describe the importance of large woody debris for ecological function of streams
5	5	Use simple mapping and mathematical tools to estimate the volume of a river sediment deposit
5	3	Explain the immediate and delayed response of a river to damming.
5	3	Explain the biotic/abiotic interactions that control river behavior
5	5	Predict river response when a dam is removed after 100 years
6	4	Prepare a detailed description of a soil pit
6	1	List typical horizons found in a New England forest and soil a New England field soil
6	1	What can you do with a Munsell chart
6	3	Recognize river terraces in the field
6	1	How does differential GPS work?
6	1	Describe the most important soil-forming processes
6	1	Explain a soil chronosequence
6	5	Create a coherent river landscape history based on the landforms you observe in the field and soil development observed in pits
6	6	Predict what will happen to today's floodplain soil over time
7	3	Describe past and present landscape features captured in photographs
7	3	Infer active landscape-changing processes by analyzing photographs
7	3	Date photographs using cultural and landscape clues
7	5	Recognize bridge and architecture types related to river landscapes and explain how these built forms were adapted to conditions imposed by the proximity to running water
7	5	Read the history of a river landscape from a combination of image and field observations
7	5	Identify, in images and in the field, riverside landscape features that indicate how the shape of the landscape has changed over time.
7	6	Predict, using field and image evidence, how a river at a specific place, is likely to influence people and their constructs in the future
8	5	Tell the story of a place through time using field work and historical image analysis
8	3	Teach someone how to reoccupy the site of an historic photograph and retake that photograph
9	1	Describe 4 geologic processes that erode hillslopes
9	2	Teach someone 3 ways to measure rates of hillslope erosion
9	3	Use one simple landscape variable to predict where hillslope erosion is most likely to occur.
9	3	Identify active landslides in the field
9	3	Identify the location of no-longer-active landslides using both field and photographic evidence
9	4	Use descriptions of geologic materials and the shape of the landscape to predict where future erosion is likely to occur
9	3	Describe geologic materials involved in landslides
9	1	Explain the difference between landslides and debris flows.
9	1	Explain various ways in which material eroded from hillslopes is removed from the site of erosion so that erosion can continue
9	2	Explain how the shape of the landscape is related to the processes causing erosion.
10	2	Understand the physical meaning of each variable and constant in the mathematical force balance equations describing slope stability
10	2	Program simple mathematical models into a spreadsheet
10	2	Perform and understand a sensitivity analysis
10	2	Explain the importance of water table levels in controlling slope stability
10	3	Use a simple physical model to predict the behavior of a complex natural system.
10	3	Use a sensitivity analysis to identify important parameters to measure in the field
10	4	Explain how natural and human-induced perturbations can affect slope stability.
11	3	Identify glacially deposited sediments in the field and use field clues to explain their genesis
11	2	Tell the late Pleistocene history of New England in general and the Champlain lowland specifically
11	1	Recognize striated rock in the field
11	3	Measure and use striations to infer the flow direction of now-vanished ice
11	1	Describe how Earth's climate has changed over time
11	3	Be able to recognize evidence that the landscape has responded to Earth's changing climate.
11	5	Explain how you would recognize that some landforms are relict and reflect conditions no longer active at the landform's location on Earth's surface.
11	5	Deduce a reasonable landscape history from fragmentary field, photographic, and documentatry evidence
11	6	Argue your point of view on an undecided scientific question using field evidence as well as information gathered from the scientific literature
12	3	Reconstruct a now-vanished cirque glacier using a topographic map and aerial photograph
12	3	Use map information to calculate an equilibrium line altitude (ELA)
12	3	Use ELA data to infer past changes in climate
12	3	Model a now-vanished ice sheet
12	1	Recognize a cirque and moraine on both a map and an aerial photograph
13	1	Explain how endogenic processes shape Earth's surface
13	1	Describe landforms most likely to be found in the three major plate tectonic settings
13	2	Recognize major volcanic and tectonic landforms
13	5	Predict thus the landscapes resulting from differing types (Si-content) of volcanism
13	2	Explain how landscape forming processes differ in area of silicic versus balsaltic volcanism
14	5	Prepare a professional poster to communicate research results
14	4	Describe features that would be likely to make such a poster a success with the audience
14	6	Explain how you would critique a professional poster to improve its audience impact
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