NGSS | Performance Expectation
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HS-LS2-6 | Performance Expectation
Grades 9-12
Evaluate the claims, evidence, and reasoning that the complex interactions in ecosystems maintain relatively consistent numbers and types of organisms in stable conditions, but changing conditions may result in a new ecosystem.
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Data Streams: A crash course in data literacy using stream ecology
Level-up data literacy skills by practicing the "PPSTT" Framework for unlocking any graph's secrets. Students watch scientists model this approach & then try it on their own using multiple data types, including: the frequency of certain words in books, streamflow rates, and maps.
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Lesson 3
Students make claims about how drying and rewetting the mesocosms impacted the periphyton mass and frogs based on evidence from the experiment conducted by Dr. Luhring's team.
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3 lessons and 4 supporting media items.
Lesson 2
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