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