High School Science

Population Ecology

Biology

Quarter 1

McGraw Hill Module 4

● Population

Evaluate

N/A

25 min

Ecology Quiz

Population Ecology Formative Assessment

● CER

Phenomena Check In

N/A

10 min

document

Review the question: Why are bee populations declining?

Have students make changes to their CER document. Engage Watch the Video-- Launch the Lesson: Human Population Video Think About It: Tokyo, Japan, has one of the largest urban populations. Where do you live? Has the population in your local area increased over the last 50 years? Why do you think your local population has increased or decreased? As you think about these questions, list what you know about human population and what you would like to know. Focus Question: What factors affect human population growth? KWL

● Launch the Lesson: Human Population Video (~1 min) ● KWL chart

Lesson 2: Human Population

20 min

● Chromebook s ● BioLab Worksheet ● Quick Investigation Worksheet

Explore & Expand

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2 90 min classes (180 total)

Explore and Explain: Human Population Growth

Online

Explore and Explain: Trends in Human Population Growth

BioLab: How can you show a population trend? This lab requires an autoclave to grow bacteria. If not available, look into an online lab. Start this lab before the other activities to

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