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 lesson plans can be found here.
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)
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