How Are Trees Important Research Project

Students will understand the importance of trees and how they could potentially affect biodiversity and ecosystems within the city. They will take their findings and use them for future lessons that require them to understand human impact on the environmental conditions of the planet. 

• Objectives
  • I will be able to understand the importance of trees and how they affect living and non living things.
  • I will be able to interpret data and understand a graph.
• Grades: 9 - 10, adaptable to 11 - 12
• Time: 5 class periods (1 week)
• Author: B Medina

Arizona Standards Engaged

HS.L2U1.21 - Obtain, evaluate, and communicate data showing the relationship of photosynthesis and cellular respiration; flow of energy and cycling of matter.
HS+B.L4U1.2 - Engage in argument from evidence that changes in environmental conditions or human interventions may change species diversity in an ecosystem.
HS.L2U1.19 - Develop and use models that show how changes in the transfer of matter and energy within an ecosystem and interactions between species may affect organisms and their
environment.
HS+B.L2U1.3 - Use mathematics and computational thinking to support claims for the cycling of matter and flow of energy through trophic levels in an ecosystem.