Why Protect Pollinators?

Duration: 5 minutes

Grade Levels: 6-10

Pollinators like bees, birds, and bats contribute to the biodiversity and resilience of ecosystems and benefit people. What can we do to protect them?
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Grade Levels: 6-10

Duration: 5 minutes

Concepts/Skills: Pollinators, Biodiversity

 

Climate Standards Connections

Next Generation Science Standards
Grade Performance Expectation Description
6-8 MS-LS2-2 Construct an explanation that predicts patterns of interactions among organisms across multiple ecosystems.
Climate Change Connections ecosystems
Clarification Statement & Assessment Boundary Emphasis is on predicting consistent patterns of interactions in different ecosystems in terms of the relationships among and between organisms and abiotic components of ecosystems. Examples of types of interactions could include competitive, predatory, and mutually beneficial.