Living Earth · Week 24 · Inheritance and Variation
Breeding for a Hotter Valley
Teams explain how growers select heat tolerant date and citrus varieties and share roles fairly in the investigation.
- Students will
- Students explain how growers select and breed heat tolerant date and citrus varieties while sharing team roles fairly.
- SEL skill
- Share roles fairly and check that every teammate has a part
- What it looks like
- Students practice connection and communication by sharing roles fairly in a team investigation.
- Content focus
- Breeding crops for heat
- Format
- Group roles share
Relationship skills
Relationship skills are the ability to build and keep healthy connections by communicating, cooperating, and handling 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-LS4-4: High School Life Science performance expectation
- Science and engineering practice: SEP6 Constructing explanations and designing solutions
- Crosscutting concept: CCC2 Cause and effect
- CA Environmental Principles and Concepts: Principle III: Natural systems change in ways people benefit from and can influence
- Literacy in science: WHST.9-10.7 Conduct short and sustained research projects to answer a question or solve a problem.
- Traditional course: Biology
Fits these textbook chapters
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More relationship skills activities for Living Earth
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- Life Without Oxygen Relationship skillsExplaining aerobic and anaerobic conditions in the Salton Sea and practicing clear, kind explanations with a partner.
- Extinction and Resilience Relationship skillsEvaluating claims about how environmental change leads to decline or new species, and how groups rebuild trust after setbacks.
- Cells That Grow and Repair Relationship skillsModeling mitosis and tissue repair and learning simple steps to repair a strained friendship.
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