Living Earth · Week 16 · Evolution and Earth's History
Earth Shapes Life
Arguing how Earth's surface and life changed together over time and recognizing how surroundings shape people's stories.
- Students will
- Students argue from evidence that living things and Earth's systems have changed each other over time.
- SEL skill
- See how surroundings shape stories, for life and for people
- What it looks like
- Students practice empathy and perspective by seeing how surroundings shape the stories of people, as they shaped life.
- Content focus
- Earth and life change together
- Format
- Partner exchange
Social awareness
Social awareness is understanding how other people see and feel about things and respecting where they come from. More social awareness 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-ESS2-7: High School Earth and Space 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: WHST.9-10.1 Write arguments focused on discipline specific content.
- Traditional course: Biology
Fits these textbook chapters
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More social awareness activities for Living Earth
- Who Eats Whom in the Desert Social awarenessStudents model energy flow through a desert food web and reflect on who depends on them and whom they depend on.
- Partners in the Desert Social awarenessExplaining the partnership between the yucca and the yucca moth and noticing the quiet partnerships that hold a classroom together.
- Cycling Carbon Social awarenessModeling the carbon cycle through photosynthesis and respiration and tracing how one person's choices cycle through a community.
- Traits and Family Stories Social awarenessAsking questions about chromosomes and inherited traits while using respectful norms for discussing family differences.
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