Living Earth · Week 3 · Ecosystems: Interactions and Energy
Carrying Capacity and Limits
Graphing population growth up to a carrying capacity, then naming the limits on students' own energy and time.
- Students will
- Students graph population data, identify the carrying capacity, and explain which limiting factors cause rises and falls.
- SEL skill
- Name a limit on your time or energy and pick a calming strategy to stay on track
- What it looks like
- Students practice coping with stress by naming limits on their own time and energy.
- Content focus
- Carrying capacity and population limits
- Format
- Think write pair share
Self-management
Self-management means managing your emotions, thoughts, and behaviors so you can reach your goals. More self-management activities
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Standards
- HS-LS2-1: High School Life Science performance expectation
- Science and engineering practice: SEP5 Using mathematics and computational thinking
- Crosscutting concept: CCC3 Scale, proportion, and quantity
- CA Environmental Principles and Concepts: Principle I: People depend on natural systems
- Literacy in science: RST.9-10.3 Follow a complex multistep procedure when carrying out experiments or taking measurements.
- Traditional course: Biology
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More self-management activities for Living Earth
- Breathing Out Energy Self-managementModeling cellular respiration and practicing slow breathing as a tool to steady the body before a test.
- Building Blocks of Life Self-managementExplaining how carbon from sugar becomes proteins and fats, and how small daily actions build larger goals.
- Survival in the Heat Self-managementExplaining the adaptations of desert pupfish and naming the personal adaptations students use to handle stress.
- Probability of Traits Self-managementUsing Punnett squares and probability to predict traits while practicing calm when outcomes feel uncertain.
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