Living Earth · Week 33 · Ecosystem Stability and Human Impact
Invasive Species
Simulating the removal of invasive tamarisk and collaborating as a team to compare strategies.
- Students will
- Students simulate removing invasive tamarisk with different strategies and compare results to explain how invasive species affect ecosystem stability and biodiversity.
- SEL skill
- Share roles and reach a joint recommendation in a team
- What it looks like
- Students collaborate as a team, share roles, and weigh strategies together.
- Content focus
- Tamarisk removal simulation
- Format
- Group roles share
Relationship skills
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Standards
- HS-LS2-6: High School Life Science performance expectation
- HS-LS4-6: High School Life Science performance expectation
- Science and engineering practice: SEP5 Using mathematics and computational thinking
- Crosscutting concept: CCC2 Cause and effect
- CA Environmental Principles and Concepts: Principle II: People influence 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 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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