Usable Tomorrow

This worksheet describes the difference between correlation and causation and demonstrates that difference using line graphs. The content covered is MS-LS2-1: Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem.

This worksheet shows students how graphs can be interpreted differently according to scale and skew. The standard content used for these examples are MS-LS4-1 and MS-LS4-2

Watch The Lorax with your class, and have them make a copy of the Google Slide deck provided here. Then, they use the slides to show what they learned about the complicated web of relationships between the ecosystem and the society in the movie. Once they determine the cause and effect of these relationships, they use this to create claims based on evidence about what destroyed the Truffula Trees AND how they might be restored.