Living Earth · Week 6 · Ecosystems: Interactions and Energy
Partners in the Desert
Explaining the partnership between the yucca and the yucca moth and noticing the quiet partnerships that hold a classroom together.
- Students will
- Students construct an explanation of how the yucca and yucca moth depend on each other, using the data as evidence.
- SEL skill
- Notice and name the unseen contributions of others in a partnership
- What it looks like
- Students practice attunement by noticing the quiet partnerships that hold a classroom together.
- Content focus
- Mutualism and explaining partnerships
- Format
- Partner exchange
Social awareness
Social awareness is seeing a situation through someone else's eyes and caring about their experience, especially when it differs from yours. 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-LS2-2: High School Life Science performance expectation
- Science and engineering practice: SEP6 Constructing explanations and designing solutions
- 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: RST.9-10.2 Determine the central ideas or conclusions of a text and summarize them accurately.
- 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.
- Cycling Carbon Social awarenessModeling the carbon cycle through photosynthesis and respiration and tracing how one person's choices cycle through a community.
- Earth Shapes Life Social awarenessArguing how Earth's surface and life changed together over time and recognizing how surroundings shape people's stories.
- Traits and Family Stories Social awarenessAsking questions about chromosomes and inherited traits while using respectful norms for discussing family differences.
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