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Serc: Investigating Biodiversity in Your Schoolyard Lesson PlanSerc: Investigating Biodiversity in Your Schoolyard Lesson Plan
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
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9th - 10th
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Serc: Investigating Biodiversity in Your Schoolyard

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In this field lab, students will investigate the biodiversity around their school and record and document the information they find. The students will compare their information to those of their classmates, develop multiple hypotheses relating to the information collected, then propose additional procedures for studying, collecting and testing these questions.

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Concepts

diversity, ecological succession, habitats, sustainability, biodiversity

Additional Tags

biome, ecosystem, monoculture

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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