MICHIGAN FORESTS FOREVER TEACHERS GUIDE

BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY

"Charting Diversity", Project Learning Tree Pre K-8 Guide, Seventh Edition, page 27, Activity #10

Overview

By exploring the amazing diversity of life on Earth, your students will discover how plants and animals are adapted for survival.  This activity provides a basis for understanding why there are so many different species and what is the value of biological diversity.

Objectives

• Organize different species of plants and animals according to various characteristics.
• Determine how certain characteristics help species adapt to environmental conditions

Teacher Guide Link (Forest Composition)  Link 2 (Tree Diversity)  Link 3 (Vertebrate Species List)

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