Living Earth · Week 30 · Structure, Function, and Health
Valley Fever and the Body's Defense
Communicating how the immune system responds to soil fungi in desert dust and how to share health information with care.
- Students will
- Students communicate how soil fungus spores enter the body and how the immune system responds, and share health information carefully and accurately.
- SEL skill
- Listen with care and share health information accurately
- What it looks like
- Students practice attunement by listening and sharing health information with care.
- Content focus
- Valley Fever and immune defense
- Format
- Partner exchange
Social awareness
Social awareness means working to understand and empathize with others, including people whose backgrounds and views differ from your own. 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-LS1-2: 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 I: People depend on natural systems
- Literacy in science: RST.9-10.1 Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of science and technical texts.
- Traditional course: Biology
Fits these textbook chapters
- California HMH Science Dimensions: The Living Earth, Unit 7: Structure and Function in Living Things
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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.
- Partners in the Desert Social awarenessExplaining the partnership between the yucca and the yucca moth and noticing the quiet partnerships that hold a classroom together.
- 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.
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RoseThread Connect activities are drafted with the help of AI and shaped by educators. Students never have to share anything personal. Our five SEL skills are informed by CASEL's SEL Framework; RoseThread Learning is not affiliated with or endorsed by CASEL.