Grade+Five+Evolution+and+Biodiversity


 * Evolution and Biodiversity Unit Resources: **

[|actionbioscience.org]An education resource of the American Institute of Biological Sciences.

[|Evolution: Extinction] Online databank on Evolution presented by PBS. Supplies videos, lesson plans, and online activities for students of all ages.

__**Enduring Understanding: **__ Changes in environmental conditions can affect the survival of individual organisms and entire species. Describe the impact on the survival of species during specific times in geologic history when environmental conditions changed.
 * CPI 5.3.6.E.1 **

[|Introduction to Biodiversity]The purpose of this Science NetLinks lesson is for students to introduce students to the amazing variety of life around them.

[|Deep Time and the History of Life]In this Teacher's Domain lesson students learn about deep time by visiting an interactive timeline, by setting up a live-action student timeline somewhere in their school, and by comparing geologic time periods to the familiar calendar year.

[|Brine Shrimp 1: Hatching Brine Shrimp]The purpose of this Science NetLinks lesson is for students to develop an understanding of how the growth and survival of an organism (brine shrimp) depends on physical conditions. This is accomplished by designing an experiment to determine the optimum salinity of water needed to hatch brine shrimp.

[|Brine Shrimp 2: Brine Shrimp Survival]The purpose of this Science NetLinks lesson is for students to develop an understanding of how growth and survival of an organism depends on physical conditions. This is accomplished by designing an artificial environment in which brine shrimp can thrive.

[|Yellowstone Wolves]The purpose of this Science NetLinks lesson is for students to use the Internet to explore relationships between habitats and species (specifically the gray wolf and those species with which it must coexist) as well as the effect of physical and human forces on living things and their environment.