Target Student Performance
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Activity |
Target Performance |
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Lesson 2 – Patterns in Organic Matter in Ecosystems (students as investigators) |
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Activity 2.1: Predictions and Planning for the Meadow Simulation |
Students make predictions about changes in the mass of different populations in a meadow ecosystem and plans to maximize the fox population. |
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Activity 2.2: The Meadow Simulation |
Students identify patterns in relationships among organic mass of populations at different trophic levels in a simulated meadow ecosystem (the organic matter pyramid). |
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Activity 2.3: Evidence-Based Arguments for the Meadow Simulation |
Students develop arguments from evidence about possible patterns in relationships among mass of populations at different trophic levels in a simulated meadow ecosystem (the organic matter pyramid). |
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Activity 2.4: Organic Carbon Pools in Other Ecosystems |
Students describe patterns in relationships among mass of populations at different trophic levels in a other ecosystems (the organic matter pyramid). |
NGSS Performance Expectations
High School
- Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics. HS-LS2-1. Use mathematical and or computational representations to support explanations of factors that affect carrying capacity of ecosystems at different scales.
Middle School
- Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems. MS-LS2-2. Construct an explanation that predicts patterns of interactions among organisms across multiple ecosystems.
- Matter and Energy in Organisms and Ecosystems. MS-LS2-4. Construct an argument supported by empirical evidence that changes to physical or biological components of an ecosystem affect populations.
- Matter and Energy in Organisms and Ecosystems. 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.