Biodiversity Indicator Tool

Biodiversity Indicator Tool

Lesson 9 of 14 in this unit

  • Secondary
  • Year 7 - 8
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Science
  • Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Geography
  • Civics and Citizenship
  • Environmental
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Lesson summary

Students will apply what they know about their local biodiversity to create a tool to help their community judge the state of the biodiversity around them. Students will treat this as an open-ended problem solving challenge and choose a media to develop their biodiversity indicator.

Learning Intentions:

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  • Create a tool for their community to make judgments about their local biodiversity.
  • Apply past learning to identify simple and usable criteria to indicate on a scale the health of biodiversity.
  • Use problem solving techniques in choosing observable criteria to make the biodiversity indicator tool.

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