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Exploring Biodiversity & Climate Change

Overview

Learn about how the San Diego Natural History Museum explores biodiversity in order to better understand the impacts of climate change - and how you can do it too!

Activity Type:

Video

Target Grade Level:

K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12

Estimated Duration:

9 minutes

Topics:

Carnivores

Possible Connections to NGSS

Performance Expectations

4-LS1-1: Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.

5-ESS3-1: Combine and obtain information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect 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-ESS3-4: Construct an argument supported by evidence for how increases in human population and per-capita consumption of natural resources impact Earth’s systems.


Created by:

Lauren Marino-Perez

Lauren Marino-Perez

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