Download Learning Center Topic: Exotic Species

Exotic Species
General/Contact Information:
Name
Sue Hinchee
Madhu Sharma
Email
School
Center #
Name
Email
School
Center #
Grade (s):
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LeGrange High School
Center 1
Inyasamma Karanam
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LaGrange Hich School
Center 3
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LaGrange High School
Center 2
Center 4
Learning Center Information:
Center Summaries, GLEs, CCSS, Materials, and Resources
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Center 1: Trading cards
Lesson Summary:
Students make trading cards about exotic species (answering questions of who, what, when, and why) and the ecological and economic impact of their
introduction and the efforts to exterminate them or to control them. The students will create trading cards using Word.
Center 1
GLEs and CCSS: 8. Explain how species in an ecosystem interact and link in a complex web (SE-HA7)
(SE-H-A10) 10. Analyze the effect of an invasive species on the biodiversity within ecosystems
(SE-H-A9)
Next Generation Standards:
d. Use models to evaluate how environmental changes in a habitat affect the number and types of
organisms that live there; some remain, move in, move out, and/or die.
e. Use evidence to argue that some changes in an organism’s habitat can be beneficial or harmful to the
organism.
f. Obtain and communicate information about the characteristics of groups of organisms and evaluate how
groups help organisms survive.
Materials and Resources:
Computers, flash drives and
directions.
1. Task Card for Trading card
2. Rubric
3. Template
Student Tools (Hardware/Software)
1. Computer
2. Word
3.
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Center 2: Brochure
Center 2
Lesson Summary:
The students will research an exotic species in Louisiana. They will create an informational brochure.
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Next Generation Science Standards:
HS 3.EIO Environmental Impacts on Organisms
1. Use models to evaluate how environmental changes in a habitat affect the number and types of
organisms that live there; some remain, move in, move out, and/or die.
2. Use evidence to argue that some changes in an organism’s habitat can be beneficial or harmful to the
organism.
3. Obtain and communicate information about the characteristics of groups of organisms and evaluate how
groups help organisms survive.
Materials and Resources:
1. Task Card for Brochure
2. Rubric for Brochure
Student Tools (Hardware/Software)
1. Computer
2. Publisher
3.Word
4. Internet Access
Center 3: Comic strip
Lesson Summary:
The students will research an exotic species. They will then create a comic strip.
Center 3
Next Generation Science Standards:
GLE’s: HS-3
1. Use models to evaluate how environmental changes in a habitat affect the number and types of
organisms that live
There; some remain, move in, move out, and/or die. [Clarification Statement: Examples of
environmental changes could be extra water in a
Normally dry area, pollution, or fire. An example of how environmental changes can affect organisms
could be the effects of a decrease in grass on a rabbit
Population.]
2. Use evidence to argue that some changes in an organism’s habitat can be beneficial or harmful to the
organism.
3. Obtain and communicate information about the characteristics of groups of organisms and evaluate
how groups
Help organisms survive. [Clarification Statement: The characteristics of groups of organisms students
should address are composition, organization,
Specialization and stability. Examples of how groups help organisms survive could be worker bees
supplying food and queens reproducing, female lions in a pride
Hunting and males patrolling the territory, or human families caring for children.] [Assessment
Boundary: Detailed structure of social insect societies not to be
Included.]
Materials and Resources:
1. Task Card for Comic
2. Rubric for Comic Strip
Student Tools (Hardware/Software)
1. Computer
2. Internet Access