Earth and Environmental Science · Week 23 · Land, Food, and Natural Resources
Biodiversity on the Edge
Designing a solution to protect Coachella Valley fringe toed lizard habitat and sticking with a complex problem.
- Students will
- Students design and evaluate a solution that reduces human impact on fringe toed lizard habitat using criteria and constraints.
- SEL skill
- Keep working on a complex problem by naming a persistence strategy
- What it looks like
- Students stay motivated on a complex problem and name steps for persisting when it feels hard.
- Content focus
- Biodiversity on the Edge
- Format
- Small group problem-solving
Self-management
Self-management is steering your feelings, thoughts, and actions in a way that helps you reach what you are working toward. More self-management activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- HS-LS2-7: High School Life Science performance expectation
- Science and engineering practice: SEP6 Constructing explanations and designing solutions
- Crosscutting concept: CCC7 Stability and change
- CA Environmental Principles and Concepts: Principle II: People influence natural systems
- Literacy in science: RST.11-12.1 Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of science and technical texts.
- Traditional course: Earth and Environmental Science
More self-management activities for Earth and Environmental Science
- Rain Shadow Self-managementModeling how mountains wring water from the air before it reaches the valley and noticing what drains or protects our emotional reserves.
- Groundwater Overdraft Self-managementComputing aquifer withdrawals and recharge and planning a personal habit that stays in balance like a budget.
- From Worry to Action Self-managementExplaining how human activity and Earth systems interact and practicing a worry to action routine for climate stress.
- Flash Floods in the Desert Self-managementInvestigating why dry desert soil sheds water and practicing calm, step by step decisions in emergencies.
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