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Using this tool, students will practice and deepen their understanding of coral reef basics, what is contributing to their loss, and what is being done to preserve this resource. Students will use the choice board and the resource list to work through (as independently as possible) short-cycle research, and then create two outcome products based on their choices. Possible adaptations and extensions can be exercised by guiding the student choices and the level of support given during the process.

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In this lesson, students combine art and science to interpret and illustrate graphical art. In this way, students will building understanding of the power of data infused art to convey the "bigger picture" of climate change.  "Hot issues such as climate change may not be the subjects of contention within the scientific community, but it seems clear that the science is not being communicated in a way that has the necessary impact. Although art cannot directly communicate science or change minds, it can create a space for dialogue around difficult issues" - Kieniewicz

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This series of two lessons utilizes current scientific research (by Dr. Josh Lord and Dr. Jim Barry) on the effects of climate change and carbon pollution on communities in the intertidal. Much research before this focused on individual species.

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In this lesson students learn about the effects of different diets and foods on our Climate Crisis and how to make positive changes

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Using this tool, students will practice and deepen their understanding of coral reef basics, what is contribution to their loss, and what is being done to preserve this resource. Students will use the choice board and the resource list to work through (as independently as possible) short-cycle research, and then create two outcome products based on their choices. Possible adaptations and extensions can be exercised by guiding the student choices and the level of support given during the process.

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The paleontological evidence of the first animal to hunt is tiny trails that have been fossilized in rocks. To start this lesson, students will consider the tracks and traces left by modern animals and what they can learn about an animal from its tracks. They then think about which animal might have been the first hunter. The class considers what it takes to be a hunter and what kind of evidence can we use to figure out what was the first hunter. Students write their ideas in their science notebooks and the teacher shares the ideas with the entire class. 

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It's amazing how we can tell the story of a world in a single fossil. Students can connect prehistory with modern day organisms.

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Use this graphic organizer to help you plan and carry out an investigation using the scientific method

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Record Details about how a scientist in a Shape of Life video plans and carries out an investigation using the Scientific Method

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The evolutionary tree shown here was drawn by Charles Darwin, a scientist who lived more than 150 years ago. It was Darwin, and another man named Alfred Russel Wallace that came up with the idea of natural selection, which is one of the ways that life evolves. Darwin wasn’t the first person to suggest that life evolves, the idea had been around for a while, but he was one of the first to use evidence to explain his observations about life.