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1 What your class asks
This lesson asks you to understand biodiversity as the diversity of life on Earth: the variety of organisms within a species, among the species of a community, and among communities and the habitats that support them. It also asks you to describe how variety within a species is essential for its survival. The museum holds no record that serves these expectations yet, so this lesson offers none; your class brings its own examples and sources. 1
Curriculum expectations, with their official codes
- B2.2 demonstrate an understanding of biodiversity as the diversity of life on Earth, including the diversity of organisms within species, among species in a community, and among communities and the habitats that support them
- B2.3 describe ways in which biodiversity within species is essential for their survival
2 The lesson
What differs?
Choose a kind of living thing you know, such as a tree, a cat or a bird. List three ways two individuals of that kind differ from each other, then three ways that kind differs from another kind. Which list shows variety within a species, and which shows variety among species?
3 Check yourself
Nothing here is marked or sent anywhere. It is for you.
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