NGSS MS-LS2-5

Here's a a couple new products I put a little over a month ago. 

Over 8 class periods, students learn about agencies and methods to protect biodiversity to meet NGSS MS-LS2-5. Throughout the plans are opportunities for students to conclude on best conservation practices.

The simulation is run by checking restocking, catch, and release, and limiting licenses against a control. Students share data as a class to get averages to look at the success of all three methods. Finally, after creating a graph, students complete a Claim-Evidence-Reasoning (CER) over their findings.

The project will have students conducting research, engineering a design, and evaluating competing designs over six or more 45-minute class periods. The objective is to evaluate competing designs for maintaining biodiversity.

There are colored and blackline copies of the student packet as a secured PDF. There is also a secured PDF with the teacher's guide with answer keys and lesson plans.

Standards/Objectives:

✅NGSS: MS-LS2-5

This product includes the following activities:

⚪Zoo Probe

⚪Conservation Agency

⚪DNR Simulation (can be purchased separately)

⚪Critical Thinking

⚪Soil Erosion Project (can be purchased separately)