Biodiversity
Biodiversity
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Performance Expectation
Performance Expectation
MS-LS2-5: Evaluate competing design solutions for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services.
In Student-Friendly Words...
In Student-Friendly Words...
I can compare different ways people can protect biodiversity and keep ecosystems healthy.
Big Ideas
Big Ideas
Biodiversity helps ecosystems remain healthy and stable.
Humans can protect or harm ecosystems.
There are many ways to conserve biodiversity.
Different conservation solutions have different strengths and challenges.
Interactive Learning
Interactive Learning
Watch & Learn
Watch & Learn
What is biodiversity?
What is biodiversity?
Why is biodiversity so important?
Why is biodiversity so important?
Biodiversity is collapsing worldwide.
Biodiversity is collapsing worldwide.
The global movement to restore
nature's biodiversity
The global movement to restore
nature's biodiversity
Real-World Connections
Real-World Connections
Healthy Ecosystems
Healthy Ecosystems
Ecosystems with many different species are often better able to respond to changes and disturbances.
Food
Food
Much of the food people eat depends on biodiversity, including different crops, livestock, pollinators, and microorganisms.
Medicine
Medicine
Scientists study organisms from many different environments to discover chemicals that can be used to develop medicines.
Conservation
Conservation
Protecting biodiversity helps preserve the organisms and ecosystems that people and other species depend on.
Take It Further
Take It Further
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