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Unit 1 Pre-Assessment
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Biodiversity describes the different varieties of plants and animals in a habitat.
Colony is a group of living things or people that settle in an area.
Question 1: If you were to create bio-diverse environment, what would you include and why?
Creating a
biodiverse
environment
Beginning: 1 point
Developing: 2 points
Accomplished: 3 points
Demonstrates a rudimentary
understanding of the term
biodiversity by describing an
environment without multiple
levels of the food chain or
being able to support
examples with reasoning.
Demonstrates an adequate
understanding of the term
biodiversity by describing an
environment with some examples of
plants and animals that would live in
a biodiverse environment (1 or 2
levels of the food chain), and is able
to support these choices with
reasoning.
What makes a
good colony
and why?
Demonstrates a rudimentary
understanding of the term
colony and is unable to
describe that what makes a
colony good is that there are
members with different roles
that support the greater
good.
Demonstrates an adequate
understanding of the term colony by
giving a general description of a
community of organisms or people.
Examples are vague and lack detail
of what makes a colony good. May
make a connection between the
term and something they know.
Example: 13 original colonies.
Demonstrates an understanding of
the term colony and is able to apply
understanding that in a colony the
same kind of organisms or people
have different roles that are needed to
support a healthy community.
Supports example with thoughtful
reasoning and makes connections to
prior understanding. (Example: In an
bee colony all the bees live together
in a hive they make. They live there
and work there. There are many
different bees with different jobs.
There is one queen bee, a few drones
that serve the queen and many
worker bees. Just like in our city we
need people with different jobs like
garbage collectors, doctors, farmers
to all help each other and make a
happy place to live)
What does
balance in a
community
look like?