Living Earth · Week 5 · Ecosystems: Interactions and Energy
Cooperation in Nature
Arguing from evidence that group behavior like flocking and herding helps survival, then setting team norms that help a lab group thrive.
- Students will
- Students argue from evidence that group behavior increases survival and explain how the group benefit works.
- SEL skill
- Set a team norm and use it to share work and speak clearly in a lab group
- What it looks like
- Students build relationship skills by setting norms that help a lab group work well.
- Content focus
- Argument from evidence about group behavior
- Format
- Small group problem-solving
Relationship skills
Relationship skills mean building and keeping healthy relationships through communication, 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-LS2-8: High School Life Science performance expectation
- Science and engineering practice: SEP7 Engaging in argument from evidence
- Crosscutting concept: CCC2 Cause and effect
- Literacy in science: WHST.9-10.1 Write arguments focused on discipline specific content.
- Traditional course: Biology
Fits these textbook chapters
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More relationship skills activities for Living Earth
- 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.
- Breeding for a Hotter Valley Relationship skillsTeams explain how growers select heat tolerant date and citrus varieties and share roles fairly in the investigation.
- Cells That Grow and Repair Relationship skillsModeling mitosis and tissue repair and learning simple steps to repair a strained friendship.
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