Lesson Overview
Students will conduct a forest health checkup of a local forest area, will take forestry measurements, and will evaluate the ecological services provided by trees and forests.
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Subjects
Biology, Environmental Science, Geography, Mathematics
Time Considerations
Part A—one 50-minute period, plus time in the field (which can vary)
Materials
- Copies of all student pages
- Area map showing potential study sites (optional)
- Flag markers
- Clipboards
- Tape measures
- String
- Colored chalk
- Spades or trowels
- Plus paper cups or small plastic bags
- Distilled water
- Eyedroppers
- Petri dishes or plastic containers
- pH paper (with range of at least 5–10)
- White paper
- Compass
- Overhead transparency sheet
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- Ecosystem Dynamics
- H.B.6 The student will demonstrate an understanding that ecosystems are complex, interactive systems that include both biological communities and physical components of the environment.
- H.B.6A Ecosystems have carrying capacities, which are limits to the numbers of organisms and populations they can support. Limiting factors include the availability of biotic and abiotic resources and challenges such as predation, competition, and dise...
- H.B.6A.1 Analyze and interpret data that depict changes in the abiotic and biotic components of an ecosystem over time or space (such as percent change, average change, correlation and proportionality) and propose hypotheses about possible relationship...
- H.B.6A.2 Use mathematical and computational thinking to support claims that limiting factors affect the number of individuals that an ecosystem can support.
- H.B.6C A complex set of interactions within an ecosystem can keep its numbers and types of organisms relatively stable over long periods of time. Fluctuations in conditions can challenge the functioning of ecosystems in terms of resource and habitat av...
- H.B.6D Sustaining biodiversity maintains ecosystem functioning and productivity which are essential to supporting and enhancing life on Earth. Humans depend on the living world for the resources and other benefits provided by biodiversity. Human activi...
- H.B.6A Ecosystems have carrying capacities, which are limits to the numbers of organisms and populations they can support. Limiting factors include the availability of biotic and abiotic resources and challenges such as predation, competition, and dise...
- H.B.6 The student will demonstrate an understanding that ecosystems are complex, interactive systems that include both biological communities and physical components of the environment.
- PS.SPID Interpreting Data
- C Calculus
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