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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:

12 Share Related Phenomena “Have you seen or heard of cases where changing one living thing in an ecosystem had an effect on other living things in the same area?” [S]

13. Develop Initial Questions [T]- Helper STEMS

14. Build the Driving Question Board [U]

15. Brainstorm Ideas for Data and Information We Need [V] Categorize the question and think of the data needed to get the answers

16. Navigation [ W ]

Homework:

None