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Desert habitat with cacti.

Analyzing San Diego Ecosystems Report

Overview

This activity allows students to look at real data from the 2018 San Diego Ecosystems Report and analyze it.

Activity Type:

Lesson

Target Grade Level:

6-8, 9-12

Estimated Duration:

Varies

Topics:

Desert Regional Impacts

Possible Connections to NGSS

Performance Expectations

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.

MS-LS2-4: Construct an argument supported by empirical evidence that changes to physical or biological components of an ecosystem affect populations.

HS-ESS3-5: Analyze geoscience data and the results from global climate models to make an evidence-based forecast of the current rate of global or regional climate change and associated future impacts to Earth systems.


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