Earth and Environmental Science · Week 24 · Land, Food, and Natural Resources
Pollinators and Plates
Simulating ways to reduce threats to pollinators and dividing team roles so every member contributes.
- Students will
- Students analyze data on pollinators and food crops, evaluate ways to reduce threats, and refine the best solution using team roles.
- SEL skill
- Take a team role and check that every member contributes
- What it looks like
- Students divide roles on a team so every member contributes and notice how communication supports the group.
- Content focus
- Pollinators and Plates
- Format
- Group roles share
Relationship skills
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What you get
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Standards
- HS-LS2-7: High School Life Science performance expectation
- Science and engineering practice: SEP5 Using mathematics and computational thinking
- Crosscutting concept: CCC2 Cause and effect
- CA Environmental Principles and Concepts: Principle II: People influence natural systems
- Literacy in science: RST.11-12.3 Follow a complex multistep procedure when carrying out experiments or taking measurements.
- Traditional course: Earth and Environmental Science
More relationship skills activities for Earth and Environmental Science
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- Field Teams Relationship skillsTeams plan a schoolyard soil and water investigation and agree on how to repair conflicts in the field.
- Saving Every Drop Relationship skillsTeams design a water saving solution for school landscaping and build on each other's ideas.
- Lithium Valley Relationship skillsGathering multiple perspectives on lithium extraction and communicating a position honestly to community stakeholders.
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