Environmental Science Unit: Endangered Species, Species, & Population Growth
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This bundle contains a month's worth of lessons, labs, and field activities and is perfect for an introduction to a high school environmental science course. The notes and projects are designed to facilitate independent learning and are ideal for sub plans or simply to encourage self-instruction ofPrice $50.00Original Price $59.00Save $9.00
These environmental lesson plans will help your students to take charge of their learning! This comprehensive course is interactive, hands-on, and student-centered! Students learn about major environmental issues in modern society through detailed lessons and activities. Units cover the four sphePrice $250.00Original Price $276.00Save $26.00
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This bundle of lessons, labs, and activities is perfect for a high school environmental science course and will introduce your students to the topics of population growth, limiting factors, carrying capacity, age structure diagrams, and speciation.
All student pages come in both PRINT and DIGITAL for efficient use in class or for distance learning.
➤What's included?
-9 Teacher Planning Pages (standards document, editable daily pacing guide, differentiation ideas for student interest, ability, and learning environment)
-1 PowerPoint (20 editable slides- highly visual and fully animated)
-3 pages of Cornell Notes (both fill-in-the-blank and editable versions included)
-2 web-quests with corresponding student pages for independent learning
-2 pages of my popular Doodle Notes(TM) and a guide to using them in your classroom
-3 Activities:
- Endangered Species Research Project
- R v. K Strategists Card Sort
- Deer Ecology Population Analysis
-6 Extension Pages:
- 2 Digging Deeper extensions for critical thinking (Speciation, Is There a Human Carrying Capacity?)
- 1 Real-Life Scenario (The Speciation of the Ozarks' Collared Lizard)
- 3 Data Analysis extensions focusing on math skills and interpretation of graphs (Interspecific Competition, Barnacle Geese Population, Age Structure Diagrams)
-1 quiz through Google Forms for automatic online grading
-12 editable task cards for a quick and easy unit review
-Editable unit test with multiple-choice and short answer questions (in both honors and regular versions)
-Supplementary Resource Ideas: links and videos for additional explanation or exploration
-Answer keys and grading rubrics for all student pages
➤What topics are included in this unit?
Species
- Definition of species
- Endangered v. threatened species
- Endangered Species Act
- Speciation (behavioral, mechanical, temporal, geographic)
- Interspecific competition
Populations and Population Growth
- Linear v. exponential growth
- Logistic growth
- S curve v. J curve
- Limiting factors (density-dependent and density-independent)
- Carrying capacity
- Natality, fecundity, fertility, mortality, life expectancy
- Survivorship curves (Types 1, 2, & 3)
- R strategists v. K strategists
- Age Structure Diagrams (Population Pyramids)
The unit is aligned to NGSS and many state standards. If you’d like to know whether your state standards are covered, you can send me an email at support@suburbanscience.com.
NGSS addressed in this unit: HS-ESS3-1, HS-ESS3-4, HS-LS2-1, HS-LS2-2, HS-LS2-6, HS-LS2-7, HS-ETS1-1. Additional details on standards are included in the teacher planning pages of this course.
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➤Where can I find other Environmental Science lessons?
Intro to Environmental Science
Biosphere Unit 1: Ecology, Food webs, and Symbiosis
Biosphere Unit 2: Species and Population Ecology
Biosphere Unit 3: World Biomes, Ecological Succession, and Biodiversity
Atmosphere: Weather, Wind, and Biogeochemical Cycles
Geosphere Unit 1: Plate Tectonics and Landforms
Geosphere Unit 2: Minerals, Mining, and Soil
Geosphere Unit 3: Fossil Fuels and Renewable Energy
Hydrosphere Unit 1: Surface Water, Groundwater, and the Water Cycle
Hydrosphere Unit 2: Marine Biomes and Water Pollution
Or get the Full Environmental Science Curriculum which includes all these units!
➤What curriculum could I use with this lesson?
This lesson is ideally geared toward high school students and would work well with a general-level Environmental Science or Biology textbook. It addresses the following topics in AP Environmental Science (APES):
- 3.2: K-selected and R-selected Species
- 3.3: Survivorship Curves
- 3.4: Carrying Capacity
- 3.5: Population Growth and Resource Availability
- 3.6: Age Structure Diagrams
- 3.7: Total Fertility Rate
- 3.8: Human Population Dynamics
- 5.1: Impacts of Urbanization
- 8.2: Human Impacts on Ecosystems
- 9.9: Endangered Species
- 9.10: Human Impacts on Biodiversity
➤Can I edit these resources to fit my needs?
Some of the files in this unit are editable. The text on the PowerPoints, Cornell Notes, and task cards is all editable so you can adjust the level of content and wording. The pacing guide, printable unit tests, and online quizzes through Google Forms™ are all fully editable. Web-quests, activities, extension pages, and any images included in this unit are in non-editable PDF formats to protect my intellectual property rights and those of the illustrators whose images I’ve purchased for use in this resource.
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