Resource Overview
Written and scaffolded for ELL/MLL, students graph and interpret growth curves for six mystery species and humans.
Students will be able to:
- Create and analyze graphs that depict population change over time.
- Support a claim to identify a species using its population growth curve as evidence.
- Compare characteristics of human population growth to that of other species.
- Orally defend a claim using evidence.
- Write sentences to explain their reasoning in making a claim.
- Use data in dialogue with classmates to reach a shared conclusion.
Features of This Resource
- Scaffolded for L2, L3 and L4 levels of language proficiency
- A favorite TESOL lesson plan for life science/biology and math
- ELLs/MLLs practice setting up, creating, and reading line graphs
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