NGSS Performance Expectation
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HS-LS2-6 | Performance Expectation
Evaluate the claims, evidence, and reasoning that the complex interactions in ecosystems maintain relatively consistent numbers and types of organisms in stable conditions, but changing conditions may result in a new ecosystem.
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Data Streams: A crash course in data literacy using stream ecology
Level-up data literacy skills by practicing the "PPSTT" Framework for unlocking any graph's secrets. Students watch scientists model this approach & then try it on their own using multiple data types, including: the frequency of certain words in books, streamflow rates, and maps.
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Lesson 3
Students make claims about how drying and rewetting the mesocosms impacted the periphyton mass and frogs based on evidence from the experiment conducted by Dr. Luhring's team.
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3 lessons and 4 supporting media items.
Lesson 2
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