Invasive species
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In this Xpeditions lesson, students explore how the environment is altered when humans manipulate the habitats of various species. Activities in this lesson engage students in collaborative group work, online research, and whole class discussion.
Students will:
- identify several species that have been relocated by human intervention and the reasons for that intervention;
- identify how the relocated species and other species have been affected by the relocation;
- identify how the environment and human society has been affected by the relocation; and
- outline arguments for and against the wisdom of such human manipulation of other species.
Xpeditions provides detailed directions for completing the lesson, suggestions for assessment and extension activities, discussion questions, and links to helpful web resources.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
Science (2005)
Grade 6
- Goal 7: The learner will conduct investigations and use technologies and information systems to build an understanding of population dynamics.
- Objective 7.01: Describe ways in which organisms interact with each other and with non-living parts of the environment:
- Coexistence/Cooperation/Competition.
- Symbiosis.
- Mutual dependence.
- Objective 7.03: Explain how changes in habitat may affect organisms.
- Objective 7.04: Evaluate data related to human population growth, along with problems and solutions:
- Waste disposal.
- Food supplies.
- Resource availability.
- Transportation.
- Socio-economic patterns.
- Objective 7.05: Examine evidence that overpopulation by any species impacts the environment.
- Objective 7.06: Investigate processes which, operating over long periods of time, have resulted in the diversity of plant and animal life present today:
- Natural selection.
- Adaptation.
- Objective 7.01: Describe ways in which organisms interact with each other and with non-living parts of the environment:
