Earth and Environmental Science · Week 28 · Natural Hazards and Resilience
Recovery and Resilience
Arguing how ecosystems recover after disturbance and how people rebuild trust and community after loss.
- Students will
- Students argue from evidence how ecosystems recover after a disturbance and connect it to how people rebuild trust after loss.
- SEL skill
- Use an acknowledge, apologize, and plan script to help trust grow back after harm
- What it looks like
- Students practice repair by using an acknowledge, apologize, and plan script to help trust grow back.
- Content focus
- Recovery and resilience
- Format
- Partner exchange
Relationship skills
Relationship skills mean building and keeping healthy relationships through clear communication, careful listening, cooperation, and working through conflict. More relationship skills 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-LS2-6: High School Life Science performance expectation
- Science and engineering practice: SEP7 Engaging in argument from evidence
- Crosscutting concept: CCC7 Stability and change
- CA Environmental Principles and Concepts: Principle III: Natural systems change in ways people benefit from and can influence
- Literacy in science: RST.11-12.8 Evaluate the hypotheses, data, analysis, and conclusions in a science text.
- Traditional course: Earth and Environmental Science
More relationship skills activities for Earth and Environmental Science
- Rocks Tell Stories Relationship skillsExplaining how the valley and its mountains formed and sharing stories about places, real or imagined, respectfully.
- 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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RoseThread Connect activities are drafted with the help of AI and shaped by educators. Students never have to share anything personal. Our five SEL skills are informed by CASEL's SEL Framework; RoseThread Learning is not affiliated with or endorsed by CASEL.