Content Standard(s):
Science 6 ) Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence regarding how resource
availability impacts individual organisms as well as populations of organisms
within an ecosystem.
NAEP Framework
NAEP Statement::
Unpacked Content
Scientific And Engineering Practices:
Analyzing and Interpreting Data
Crosscutting Concepts: Cause and Effect
Disciplinary Core Idea: Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics
Evidence Of Student Attainment:
Students:
Organize data (tables, graphs, charts, etc.) that allows for analysis and interpretation of relationships between resource availability and organisms in an ecosystem.
Analyze data that shows identification of relationships between factors like population size, the growth and survival of individual organisms, and resource availability.
Make relevant predictions, based on interpretation of organized data, of relationships between factors like population size, the growth and survival of individual organisms, and resource availability. Teacher Vocabulary:
Analyze
Interpret
Evidence
Resource(s)
Organism(s)
Ecosystem
Biotic
Abiotic
Populations (e.g., sizes, reproduction rates, growth information)
Competition Knowledge:
Students know:
Organisms, and populations of organisms, are dependent on their environmental interactions both with other living (biotic) things and with nonliving (abiotic) things.
In any ecosystem, organisms and populations with similar requirements for food, water, oxygen, or other resources may compete with each other for limited resources, access to which consequently constrains their growth and reproduction.
Growth of organisms and population increases are limited by access to resources. Skills:
Students are able to:
Organize the given data to allow for analysis and interpretation of relationships between resource availability and organisms in an ecosystem.
Analyze the organized data to determine the relationships between the size of a population, the growth and survival of individual organisms, and resource availability.
Determine whether the relationships provide evidence of a causal link between factors.
Interpret the organized data to make predictions based on evidence of causal relationships between resource availability, organisms, and organism populations. Understanding:
Students understand that:
Cause and effect relationships may be used to predict phenomena in natural or designed systems.
Causal links exist between resources and growth of individual organisms and the numbers of organisms in ecosystems during periods of abundant and scarce resources. AMSTI Resources:
AMSTI Module:
Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards
AAS Standard:
Science 11 ) Analyze and interpret data to predict how environmental conditions (e.g.,
weather, availability of nutrients, location) and genetic factors (e.g.,
selective breeding of cattle or crops) influence the growth of organisms (e.g.,
drought decreasing plant growth, adequate supply of nutrients for maintaining
normal plant growth, identical plant seeds growing at different rates in
different weather conditions, fish growing larger in large ponds than in small
ponds).
NAEP Framework
NAEP Statement::
NAEP Statement::
Unpacked Content
Scientific And Engineering Practices:
Analyzing and Interpreting Data
Crosscutting Concepts: Cause and Effect
Disciplinary Core Idea: Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics
Evidence Of Student Attainment:
Students:
Predict, using analysis and interpretation of data, how both environmental and genetic factors influence the growth of organisms. Teacher Vocabulary:
Analyze
Interpret
Data
Predict
Environmental Conditions (e.g., weather, resource availability, etc.)
Genetics
Genetic Factors (e.g., selective breeding, etc.)
Organisms Knowledge:
Students know:
Environmental factors can influence growth.
Genetic factors can influence growth.
Changes in the growth of organisms can occur as specific environmental and genetic factors change. Skills:
Students are able to:
Organize given data on how both environmental and genetic factors influence the growth of organisms to allow for analysis and interpretation.
Analyze the data to identify possible causal relationships between environmental and genetic factors and the growth of organisms.
Interpret patterns observed from the data to provide causal accounts for events and make predictions for events by constructing explanations. Understanding:
Students understand that:
Genetic factors as well as local conditions affect the growth of organisms.
Because both environmental and genetic factors can influence organisms simultaneously, organism growth is the result of environmental and genetic factors working together.
Because organism growth can have several genetic and environmental causes, the contributions of specific causes or factors to organism growth can be described only using probability. AMSTI Resources:
AMSTI Module:
Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards
AAS Standard:
Local/National Standards:
Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS):
7th grade Middle School (MS) Life Science (LS)-
MS-LS1-5-construct a scientific explanation for how environmental factors influence the growth of organisms.
Science and Engineering Practices (SEP)-
MS-LS1.SEP.2.1-conduct an investigation to produce data to serve as the basis for evidence that meets the goals of an investigation.
Primary Learning Objective(s):
This lesson plan addresses topics that ask what is considered living and non-living, and how our needs are met with these diverse forms of necessities.
Students should be able to recognize that in order for something to be classified as living, it must grow, develop, reproduce, be made up of cells, and use energy.
Students should understand that living and non-living things interact all the time.
Students must also recognize non-living things can also have living characteristics (i.e. Viruses)
