Geography · Week 8 · Physical Systems and Human Populations
Living in a Biome
Comparing how desert plants and animals adapt to extremes and identifying strategies students use to persevere through hard seasons.
- Students will
- Students compare how desert plants and animals adapt to extreme heat and scarce water and explain the characteristics and distribution of a desert biome (NGS 8) using geographic data.
- SEL skill
- Choose a small step to persevere through a hard season
- What it looks like
- Students identify strategies they use to keep going through hard seasons, as desert life keeps going through drought.
- Content focus
- Living in a Biome
- Format
- Think write pair share
Self-management
Self-management means managing your thoughts, feelings, and actions so you can set goals, stay motivated, and keep going through challenges. 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
- NGS.8: National Geography Standard 8
- CA HSS Analysis Skill: HI5 Analyze human changes to landscapes and the environmental policy issues that result. (Historical Interpretation)
- C3 Framework (national): D2.Geo.3.9-12 Use geographic data to analyze variations in the spatial patterns of cultural and environmental characteristics at multiple scales.
- Literacy in history: RH.9-10.7 Integrate quantitative or technical analysis, such as charts and maps, with information in a text.
More self-management activities for Geography
- Places Change, Places Remain Self-managementComparing old and new photos of a valley town to track change and continuity and naming what stays steady in students' lives during times of change.
- When Heat Shapes a Community Self-managementExploring how extreme heat affects work, school, and health in the valley and building a personal plan to stay calm and safe in the heat.
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