Module: Human Impacts on Biodiversity
DCI: LS4.D Humans depend on the living world for the resources and
other benefits provided by biodiversity. But human activity is also having
adverse impacts on biodiversity through overpopulation, overexploitation,
habitat destruction, pollution, introduction of invasive species, and climate
change. Thus sustaining biodiversity so that ecosystem functioning and
productivity are maintained is essential to supporting and enhancing life on
Earth. Sustaining biodiversity also aids humanity by preserving landscapes of
recreational or inspirational value.
PE: HS-LS4-6 Create or
revise a simulation to test a solution to mitigate adverse impacts of human
activity on biodiversity
[Clarification
Statement: Emphasis is on designing solutions for a proposed problem related to
threatened or endangered species, or to genetic variation of organisms for
multiple species.]
The ideas here are:
-humans depend on the living world for resources and other benefits
- biodiversity provides humans benefits and resources
- human activity adversely effects biodiversity
- some of the human activities which effect biodiversity are overpopulation, overexploitation, habitat destruction, pollution, introduction of invasive species, and climate change
- sustaining biodiversity is essential to supporting life on earth
- there are also recreational and inspirational values to preserving biodiversity
It will be very difficult to get to this PE. We may have to stick to content from the DCI. If we are to address it, it will be by having students evaluate the likelihood that a proposed solution will do its job to mitigate the loss of biodiversity.
Possible Questions:
-which of the following human activities is most likely responsible for the destruction of rainforest habitat?
- which of the following human activities provides the best solution for improving the health of an ecosystem?
- in which of the following ways do humans depend on the biodiversity of living things?
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