Living Earth · Week 17 · Evolution and Earth's History
Extinction and Resilience
Evaluating claims about how environmental change leads to decline or new species, and how groups rebuild trust after setbacks.
- Students will
- Students evaluate claims and evidence about how environmental change can lead to population decline, extinction, or new species.
- SEL skill
- Name steps groups take to rebuild trust after a setback
- What it looks like
- Students practice repair and trust by naming how groups rebuild trust after a setback.
- Content focus
- Environmental change and extinction
- Format
- Small group problem-solving
Relationship skills
Relationship skills mean connecting well with others by speaking clearly, listening closely, sharing the work, and working through disagreements. 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-LS4-5: High School Life 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 II: People influence natural systems
- Literacy in science: RST.9-10.8 Evaluate the hypotheses, data, analysis, and conclusions in a science text.
- Traditional course: Biology
Fits these textbook chapters
- California HMH Science Dimensions: The Living Earth, Unit 4: Evidence for Evolution
- California HMH Science Dimensions: The Living Earth, Unit 8: Ecosystem Stability and the Response to Climate Change
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More relationship skills activities for Living Earth
- Cooperation in Nature Relationship skillsArguing from evidence that group behavior like flocking and herding helps survival, then setting team norms that help a lab group thrive.
- Life Without Oxygen Relationship skillsExplaining aerobic and anaerobic conditions in the Salton Sea and practicing clear, kind explanations with a partner.
- 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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