Ms Wildflowers

A student and teacher favorite! Great opportunity for your students to use their creativity to solve a problem! For this performance task, students will imagine and describe a future world in which they are citizens, design an arthropod which they have “discovered” in this future world, and create a three dimensional model of their discovery to share with other citizens. Includes a detailed rubric! Essential Question: How does an adaptation make a species more successful in its environment? C

For this problem based performance task, students practice being biologists as they use the scientific method to solve a problem. Other prominent concepts encountered are: interdependency among organisms within ecosystems, dependence of organisms on nonliving factors in an ecosystem, water, carbon, and nitrogen cycles,effects of human activity on ecosystems,environmental issues, and characteristics and needs of organisms. As the second half (the first half can be found free on this site!) of a

Students will choose a cycle in nature (water, carbon, or nitrogen) to research, and write an article for a newsletter of a conservation group, such as the National Wildlife Federation, or similar local group. A fun way for students to create their own knowledge about water, carbon, and nitrogen cycles, interdependency among organisms in ecosystems, effects of human activity on ecosystems, and environmental issues! This problem based performance task combines language arts and science to satisfy