HS-LS2.A: Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems Lesson Plans
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Carrying Capacity Activity Lesson Plan (PDF)
Lesson Plan (DOCX) with Membership
Activity
Students will act out a how a population grows and reaches its carrying capacity.NGSS Standard
HS-LS2.A: Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems
Published by NGSS Life Science High School
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Population Ecology Lab Lesson Plan (PDF)
Lesson Plan (DOCX) with Membership
Experiment
Students participate in an activity that models a population of rabbits and how density-dependent factors affect a population size. Topics included are competition, predation, exponential growth, logistic growth, carry capacity, limiting factors, growth calculations and graphs.NGSS Standard
HS-LS2.A: Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems
Published by NGSS Life Science High School
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Organic Carbon Pools in Other in Ecosystems Student Handout
Multimedia
Lesson Plan
Worksheet
Students consider different ecosystems that have different amounts of organic carbon to begin to think about carrying capacity.NGSS Standard
HS-LS2.A: Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems
Published by CarbonTIME High School
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Key Features of Ecosystems Multimedia
Teacher Notes
Multimedia
Students “zoom in” to a meadow ecosystem. We expect that most students will be able to identify the producers, herbivores, and carnivores, but they will be less likely to explain how the number of each is affected by the others.NGSS Standard
HS-LS2.A: Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems
Published by CarbonTIME High School
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Expressing Ideas for Patterns in Ecosystems Worksheet Student Handout
Multimedia
Student Handout
Teacher Notes
Worksheet
Teacher led worksheet and PowerPoint about ecosystems.NGSS Standard
HS-LS2.A: Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems
Published by Carbon TIME High School