Living Earth · Week 36 · Ecosystem Stability and Human Impact
Gratitude for Our Living Community
Students write thank you notes connecting a classmate's contribution to how cooperation helps living systems thrive.
- Students will
- Students evaluate evidence that group behaviors such as cooperation increase survival and link a classmate's contribution to how members of a community help a system thrive.
- SEL skill
- Express gratitude clearly and link a classmate's contribution to cooperation
- What it looks like
- Students express gratitude and communicate it clearly.
- Content focus
- Gratitude and interdependence
- Format
- Partner exchange
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-LS2-8: High School Life Science performance expectation
- Science and engineering practice: SEP8 Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information
- Crosscutting concept: CCC4 Systems and system models
- CA Environmental Principles and Concepts: Principle IV: There are no permanent or impermeable boundaries that prevent matter from flowing between systems
- Literacy in science: WHST.9-10.2 Write informative and explanatory texts, including scientific procedures and processes.
- Traditional course: Biology
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.
- 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.
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