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Where the Pronghorn Roam

Activity Type: Lesson Plans / Curriculum |
Audience: Students |
Grades: 5-8
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Learning Time: 60 Minutes

Students learn about tracking pronghorn, how their migration patterns are affected by changes in the landscape, and what can be done to ensure they have space to roam. 

Learning Objectives 

  • Students will learn that observing wild animals can help us understand patterns of migration and preferred habitats. 
  • Students will analyze tracking data to understand what features of the landscape help and hinder pronghorn migration. 
  • Students will learn that migration is becoming more challenging for pronghorn as landscapes are changed by human land uses and that careful land planning can help ensure pronghorn are able to migrate. 

Educational Standards 

  • NGSS MS-LS2-1. Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem. 
  • NGSS MS-LS2-4. Construct an argument supported by empirical evidence that changes to physical or biological components of an ecosystem affect populations. 
  • NGSS MS-ETS1-1 Engineering Design. Define the criteria and constraints of a design problem with sufficient precision to ensure a successful solution, taking into account relevant scientific principles and potential impacts on people and the natural environment that may limit possible solutions. 
  • Literacy CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RST.6-8.7 Integrate quantitative or technical information expressed in words in a text with a version of that information expressed visually (e.g., in a flowchart, diagram, model, graph, or table).