Shell Building Game
Overview
Students will model the real-life process of competition for carbonate by shelled organisms under current and projected ocean acidification levels to demonstrate how shelled organisms are impacted.
Activity Type:
Lesson
Target Grade Level:
K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Estimated Duration:
Varies
Topics:
Oceans, Food Systems
Possible Connections to NGSS |
Performance Expectations K-ESS3-3: Communicate solutions that will reduce the impact of humans on the land, water, air, and/or other living things in the local environment. K-ESS3-1: Use a model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants and animals (including humans) and the places they live. K-LS1-1: Use observations to describe patterns of what plants, animals and humans need to survive. 3-LS4-4: Make a claim about the merit of a solution to a problem caused when the environmental changes and types of plants and animals that live there may change. 3-LS4-3: Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some less well and some not at all. 4-LS1-1: Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction. 4-ESS3-2: Generate and compare multiple solutions to reduce the impacts of natural Earth processes on humans. MS-LS1-5: Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how environmental and genetic factors influence the growth of organisms. 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. HS-ESS3-1: Construct an explanation based on evidence for how the availability of natural resources, occurrence of natural hazards, and changes in climate have influenced human activity. |
Created by:
Climate Kids
