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Everest Extremes: Biodiversity Lesson PlanEverest Extremes: Biodiversity Lesson Plan
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Montana State University
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4th - 8th
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Everest Extremes: Biodiversity

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This Everest Extremes: Biodiversity lesson plan also includes:
  • Everest Extremes: Biodiversity Documents
  • Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle
  • Species Cards
  • Mount Everest Climate Zones
  • Mount Everest & Me
  • Everest Education Expedition
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How many animals can live in a climate as cold as Mount Everest's? Find out with a science lesson all about biodiversity. Activities include research, presentations, group work, coloring maps, and a simulation of a food web.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

mount everest, biodiversity, adaptations, biomes, ecosystems, endangered species, food chains, glaciers, habitats, the himalayas, mountain ranges

Additional Tags

social studies

Instructional Ideas

  • Test for comprehension by asking each learner to write answers to the questions in their journals after class discussion is over

Classroom Considerations

  • Requires computer access
  • You need to provide some materials, such as yarn
  • The sixth resource in a series of eight

Pros

  • Provides educational game options 
  • Easy to tailor to the needs of your classroom
  • Engaging and relatable activities keep the class interested

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RI.4.7 RI.5.7 RH.6-8.7

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