Creating a Fire Mosaic
Overview
Students will deepen their understanding of a fire-adapted ecosystem via an art project. Art is a vital part of the way that we understand the world and express our experience of it. It is a way of keeping culture and history alive, and it helps students to understand phenomena through a hands-on, emotionally engaged lens.
Activity Type:
Lesson
Target Grade Level:
3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Estimated Duration:
Varies
Topics:
Fire
Possible Connections to NGSS |
Performance Expectations 3-LS3-2: Use evidence to support the explanation that traits can be influenced by the environment. 4-ESS3-1: Obtain and combine information to describe that energy and fuels are derived from natural resources and their uses affect the environment. 5-ESS3-1: Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth’s resources and environment. MS-LS2-4: Construct an argument supported by empirical evidence that changes to physical or biological components of an ecosystem affect populations. MS-ESS3-5: Ask questions to clarify evidence of the factors that have caused the rise in global temperatures over the past century. HS-LS4-5: Evaluate the evidence supporting claims that changes in environmental conditions may result in (1) increases in the number of individuals of some species, (2) the emergence of new species over time, and (3) the extinction of other species. |
Created by:
Climate Kids
