Living Earth · Week 14 · Evolution and Earth's History
Survival in the Heat
Explaining the adaptations of desert pupfish and naming the personal adaptations students use to handle stress.
- Students will
- Students construct an explanation of how traits of desert pupfish help them survive extreme heat and salt through natural selection.
- SEL skill
- Name a strategy that keeps you going under stress, the way pupfish survive heat
- What it looks like
- Students practice self-motivation by naming the personal strategies they use to keep going under stress.
- Content focus
- Adaptations to extreme heat
- Format
- Partner exchange
Self-management
Self-management is using strategies to guide your emotions, thoughts, and actions toward what you want to accomplish. More self-management 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-LS4-4: High School Life Science performance expectation
- Science and engineering practice: SEP6 Constructing explanations and designing solutions
- Crosscutting concept: CCC2 Cause and effect
- CA Environmental Principles and Concepts: Principle III: Natural systems change in ways people benefit from and can influence
- Literacy in science: WHST.9-10.2 Write informative and explanatory texts, including scientific procedures and processes.
- Traditional course: Biology
Fits these textbook chapters
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More self-management activities for Living Earth
- Carrying Capacity and Limits Self-managementGraphing population growth up to a carrying capacity, then naming the limits on students' own energy and time.
- Breathing Out Energy Self-managementModeling cellular respiration and practicing slow breathing as a tool to steady the body before a test.
- Building Blocks of Life Self-managementExplaining how carbon from sugar becomes proteins and fats, and how small daily actions build larger goals.
- Probability of Traits Self-managementUsing Punnett squares and probability to predict traits while practicing calm when outcomes feel uncertain.
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