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| | Description: | | | This Lesson will explore the seven major biomes of the world. Students will prepare an eBook on the seven different biomes. They will include a thematic map illustrating the biomes in your region and a climograph illustrating the average precipitation and temperature in their region for a year. Students need a basic knowledge of a web authoring application. This Lesson is appropriate for grade level(s) 9-10.
| | | | | Related Standards: | | | |  | | MST1.C.SI2B | | Students refine their research ideas through library
investigations, including electronic information retrieval
and reviews of the literature, and through peer feedback
obtained from review and discussion.
| | | | MST1.C.SI3A | | Students use various means of representing and organizing observations (e.g., diagrams, tables, charts, graphs, equations, matrices) and insightfully interpret the organized data.
| | | | MST2.C.IS1B | | Students prepare multimedia presentations demonstrating a clear sense of audience and purpose. (Note: Multimedia may include posters, slides, images, presentation software,
etc.)
| | | | MST2.C.IS1C | | Students access, select, collate, and analyze information obtained
from a wide range of sources such as research data
bases, foundations, organizations, national libraries, and
electronic communication networks, including the
Internet.
| | | | MST4.C.PS2.ES.B | | Students explain how incoming solar radiation, ocean currents, and land masses affect weather and climate.
| | | | MST4.C.LE1A | | Students explain how diversity of populations within ecosystems
relates to the stability of ecosystems.
| | | | MST4.C.LE6B | | Students explain the importance of preserving diversity of species
and habitats.
| | | | SS3.C.1A | | Students understand how to develop and use maps and other graphic representations to display geographic issues, problems, and questions.
| | | | SS3.C.1B | | Students describe the physical characteristics of the Earth’s surface and investigate the continual reshaping of the surface by physical processes and human activities.
| | | | SS3.C.2A | | Students plan, organize, and present geographic research projects.
| | | | SS3.C.2B | | Students locate and gather geographic information from a variety of primary and secondary sources.
| | | | SS3.C.2C | | Students select and design maps, graphs, tables, charts, diagrams, and other graphic representations to present geographic information.
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| | | Submitted By: | Marla Witkowski, Educator
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