Living Earth · Week 35 · Ecosystem Stability and Human Impact
Reflecting on Living Earth
Students revisit their week one scientist map and explain how their thinking and confidence have changed.
- Students will
- Students use evidence from the year to revisit their scientist map and explain how their understanding of living systems has changed. They argue a stability claim using one ecosystem from the year.
- SEL skill
- Recognize how your thinking has changed and name your feelings about your growth
- What it looks like
- Students recognize their feelings about their growth as scientists.
- Content focus
- Looking back at Living Earth
- Format
- Think write pair share
Self-awareness
Self-awareness means paying attention to your own emotions, ideas, and values and how they influence your behavior. More self-awareness activities
What you get
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Standards
- HS-LS2-6: High School Life Science performance expectation
- Science and engineering practice: SEP8 Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information
- Crosscutting concept: CCC7 Stability and change
- Literacy in science: WHST.9-10.9 Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
- Traditional course: Biology
More self-awareness activities for Living Earth
- Who Gets to Be a Scientist? Self-awarenessStudents map the questions they already ask about the desert around them and name the scientist identity they bring into Living Earth.
- Sunlight Into Sugar Self-awarenessModeling photosynthesis as an energy transformation and naming what refuels students' own energy.
- Clues in Shared Ancestry Self-awarenessComparing anatomical and DNA evidence for common ancestry and reflecting on the family and community roots students share.
- Semester Reflection: My Growth as a Scientist Self-awarenessStudents explain how the factors of evolution changed a real population, contrast that with how they grew as learners this semester, and set goals for the spring.
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