Periodical cicada survival
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A lesson plan for Grade 6 Science
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- Appropriate grades
- 6
- Subjects
- science (environmental science), thinking skills (information literacy, research skills)
- Provider
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
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In this lesson, students explore defense mechanisms involved in predatory/prey relationships. Students reflect on the life cycle and behavior of the cicada and develop understandings about how their unique life cycle actually helps them to reproduce and survive in spite of their lack of typical defense mechanisms. After students view a slide presentation describing the life cycle of the 17-year cicada, the class discusses how cicadas survive and continue to be a species. There are multiple opportunities for collaboration, class discussion, and uses of technology in this lesson. Science NetLinks provides student handouts, web resources, and detailed directions for completing the lesson. This activity also contains links to a variety of web resources that explain the life cycles of several species of cicadas.
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 7.05: 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:
