Lesson Plan - Managing Prairie Communities: Jolly Rancher John & Bad Bart

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3rd - 10th, Adult Education, Homeschool

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Biology, Earth Sciences, Environment

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PowerPoint Presentations, Scripts, Lesson

Standards

NGSSMS-LS2-2

NGSS5-LS2-1

NGSS3-LS4-3

NGSS3-LS4-4

NGSSHS-LS4-4

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In this Lesson Plan, students role play interactions in a biodiverse prairie community. A background powerpoint, teaches students the names of special prairie plants and animals and how they interact within a biodiverse prairie community. Students are introduced to two basic range management practices: setting appropriate stocking rates to avoid over-grazing and using prescribed burning to suppress invader plants.

Then, each student is assigned a part and physical actions to role play in a dramatization of prairie community interaction in two quite different pasture scenes, under good range management and under poor management. Review slides reinforce plant/animal identification and questions reinforce main concepts and vocabulary. A substantive and fun activity!

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1. Managing Prairie Communities Lesson Plan which includes Prairie Cast List and Director's Script (.pdf)

2. Prairie Communities Powerpoint (.pptx)

3. Elementary Review Questions (.docx)

4. Elementary Review Questions-KEY (.docx)

5. Middle School Review Questions (.docx)

6. Middle School Review Questions-KEY (.docx)

7. High School Review Questions (.docx)

8. High School Review Questions-KEY (.docx)

Total Pages

71 pages

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Teaching Duration

90 minutes

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NGSSMS-LS2-2

Construct an explanation that predicts patterns of interactions among organisms across multiple ecosystems. Emphasis is on predicting consistent patterns of interactions in different ecosystems in terms of the relationships among and between organisms and abiotic components of ecosystems. Examples of types of interactions could include competitive, predatory, and mutually beneficial.

NGSS5-LS2-1

Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment. Emphasis is on the idea that matter that is not food (air, water, decomposed materials in soil) is changed by plants into matter that is food. Examples of systems could include organisms, ecosystems, and the Earth. Assessment does not include molecular explanations.

NGSS3-LS4-3

Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all. Examples of evidence could include needs and characteristics of the organisms and habitats involved. The organisms and their habitat make up a system in which the parts depend on each other.

NGSS3-LS4-4

Make a claim about the merit of a solution to a problem caused when the environment changes and the types of plants and animals that live there may change. Examples of environmental changes could include changes in land characteristics, water distribution, temperature, food, and other organisms. Assessment is limited to a single environmental change. Assessment does not include the greenhouse effect or climate change.

NGSSHS-LS4-4

Construct an explanation based on evidence for how natural selection leads to adaptation of populations. Emphasis is on using data to provide evidence for how specific biotic and abiotic differences in ecosystems (such as ranges of seasonal temperature, long-term climate change, acidity, light, geographic barriers, or evolution of other organisms) contribute to a change in gene frequency over time, leading to adaptation of populations.

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