Unit Plan, Lesson Plan, Activity Ecological Model and Philip Vera Cruz (Biology, Life Science, Inter-Coordinated Science)

Students will learn about the life of Philip Vera Cruz and, through the creation of an Ecological Model of his life as a farmworker, will come to understand the relationships between organisms and their environment. Students will explore the different levels of interaction between organisms of the same species and across different species, culminating with their biome.
Learning Objectives:
Students will:

• Learn to cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of science and technical texts, attending to the precise details of explanations or descriptions.
• Learn to determine the central ideas or conclusions of a text; trace the text’s explanation or depiction of a complex process, phenomenon, or concept; provide an accurate summary of the text.
• Learn to follow precisely a complex multistep procedure when carrying out experiments, taking measurements, or performing technical tasks, attending to special cases or exceptions defined in the text.