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Living Earth: Integrating Life Science and Earth and Space Science

Living Earth: Integrating Life Science and Earth and Space Science

Your Pacing Guide for 3-Dimensional Teaching

Turn to labs that can help you lead students to succeed. Carolina Kits 3D® investigations engage students in scientific and engineering practices while applying core ideas and crosscutting concepts—experiences that are key to thriving with the NGSS and phenomena-based learning.

Address phenomena throughout the school year with this week-by-week lab activity guide.

Planning Made Simple

 Ecosystem Interactions and Energy
Week PE Lab Activity
1   Introduction, math review, lab skills, and lab safety
2 HS-LS2-1 Carrying Capacity and Algal Blooms
3 HS-LS2-2 Climate Patterns and Species Distribution
4 HS-LS2-4 Food Chains and Energy Flow
5 HS-LS2-8 Group Behavior and Social Insects

 Photosynthesis and Respiration: History of Earth’s Atmosphere
Week PE Lab Activity
6 HS-LS1-5 Algae Bead Photosynthesis
7 HS-LS1-7 Investigating Aerobic and Anaerobic Respiration in Yeast Beads
8 HS-LS2-3 Carolina STEM Challenge®: Biofuels
9 HS-LS2-5 Contributors to the Carbon Cycle
10 HS-ESS1-6 Modeling Radiometric Dating
11 HS-ESS2-6, HS-ESS3-6 Modeling the Carbon Cycle
12 HS-ESS2-7 Coevolution of Earth's Systems

 Ecosystem Stability and the Response to Climate Change
Week PE Lab Activity
29  HS-LS2-6 Changing Ecosystems
30 HS-LS2-6 Succession in a Hay Infusion
31 HS-LS2-7 Coliform Contamination
32  HS-LS4-5 Endangered Species
33  HS-LS4-6 Oil Spill Bioremediation
34  HS-ESS3-5 Analyzing Patterns in Climate Change
35  HS-ESS3-6 Earth Systems and Climate Change
36  HS-ESS3-6 Assessment, Remediation, and Exams