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Objective: How could buying candy affect orangutan populations in the wild?

Standards:

MS-LS2-1: Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem. 

MS-LS2-4: Construct an argument supported by empirical evidence that changes to physical or biological components of an ecosystem affect populations. 

MS-LS2-2: Construct an explanation that predicts patterns of interactions among organisms across multiple ecosystems. 

MS-LS2-5: Evaluate competing design solutions for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services. 

MS-ESS3-3: Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment. 

MS-ETS1-1: Define the criteria and constraints of a design problem with sufficient precision to ensure a successful solution, taking into account relevant scientific principles and potential impacts on people and the natural environment that may limit possible solutions.

Warm-Up: 

• • Daily Reading

To Do List:

9 Develop An Initial Model as Individual Students[ P]

10 Develop and Initial Consensus Model As a Class [Q]

11 Navigation [R] As home learning, prompt students to think about other examples in which changing one component in an ecosystem caused other components to also change. 

Homework:

As home learning, students think about other examples in which changing one component in an ecosystem caused other components to also change.