Description
Your students will love learning about the competition for resources with these engaging activities. This comprehensive 5E packet on resource availability is specially designed to align with the NGSS Middle School MS-LS2-1 standard “analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem.”
Easy to follow and fun to use and teach with. You don’t have to add anything.
Topics Covered
- Competition For Resources
- Limiting Factors
- Interspecific Competition
- Intraspecific Competition
- Carrying Capacity
- Population Growth
Here’s what’s included in this packet:
- Engagement activity including an editable I CAN objective statement
- Explore – science station lab (see below)
- Explain – fully editable powerpoint
- Elaborate -editable student choice board
- Evaluate – differentiated assessment
- Notes – differentiated
Science Stations
- Graph It – students will create a graph from a set of data allowing them to compare the effects of temperature and rainfall on water resources.
- Read It – here the students read about the desert biome, how some plants are adapted to this habitat and how the availability of water results in a population explosion.
- Analyze It – students are given information about the population explosion of an invasive species. The questions on the station sheet will ask them to analyze the graph.
- Describe It – students are given photos showing how different ways in which animals and plants compete for resources.
- Write It – At this station students write about competition for resources in their own area.
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