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The Increasing Biodiversity Project aims to develop a reasonable plan to enhance biodiversity at or around school. Students can work individually or in pairs to create a project that includes required information such as the project's idea, its potential effects, implementation strategies, costs, and responsibilities. A grading rubric is provided to evaluate creativity, detail, research, and overall effort.

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IncreasingBiodiversityProject-1

The Increasing Biodiversity Project aims to develop a reasonable plan to enhance biodiversity at or around school. Students can work individually or in pairs to create a project that includes required information such as the project's idea, its potential effects, implementation strategies, costs, and responsibilities. A grading rubric is provided to evaluate creativity, detail, research, and overall effort.

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Name: _________________________________

Hour: ___
Increasing Biodiversity Project
Goal:
● Develop a way to increase the biodiversity at or around school.

Directions:
● Decide if you are going to work alone or with one other person.
● Review the ways that humans reduce biodiversity in ecosystems.
● Develop a project that could increase biodiversity at or around school, it doesn’t have to
actually happen, however it needs to be reasonable (example: it is not reasonable to
remove paper towels or grow a forest over the football field).
● Decide how you are going to present your information to the class: newspaper article,
poster, slides presentation, video or another approved method.
● Include all of the required pieces of information.

Required Information:
● What is your idea? ● What are some positive and negative
● How can it increase biodiversity? (pros/cons) effects of your project
● How could it be accomplished? ● Have other schools or communities
● What would it’s approximate cost be? tried something like this?
● Who would be responsible for keeping ● Include a bibliography
it going?

Where to Start:
● Define Biodiversity: ______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
● Why is biodiversity important? ______________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
● Humans have reduced biodiversity by:
○ Destroying habitat (places animals call home)
○ Pollution (oil spills, toxic waste, fertilizer, plastic)
○ Climate Change (caused by greenhouse gasses from combustion)
○ Overfishing, invasive species, removing predators
● Look at the list above, decide which area you want to work on reducing. _____________
● List out a couple of ideas that would reduce the effects of the area you chose at school.
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
● Choose your favorite idea and ask the following questions:
○ Could it increase biodiversity?
○ Is it reasonable?
Grading Rubric
5 3 1 0
Idea Idea is creative, Idea is somewhat Idea is not reasonable Idea was plagiarized
reasonable, and reasonable or creative
innovative
Ability to increase It has the ability to It could increase It is not likely to It could decrease
biodiversity greatly increase some biodiversity increase biodiversity biodiversity ot it is
biodiversity missing
How is it going to be Very detailed, Lacking detail, Lacking detail, Missing
done throughout and accurate process inaccurate process
accurate
Approximate Cost Researched Researched Shows no research, Missing
approximate cost, approximate cost, not not accurate
accurate accurate
Who is Responsible Detailed and Lacking detail, not Very little detail, not Missing
plausible plausible possible
Pros and Cons At least two pros and Two pros and cons Only one pro or con Missing
cons are accurate and are listed, lacking are listed
detailed detail
Has it been done Shows research and Shows research, Very little detail, Missing
anywhere else detail lacking detail wasn’t researched
Bibliography Includes at least three Includes 1 or 2 Missing
good sources sources only
Overall Shows great effort Shows some effort Shows little effort and Shows no effort or
and creativity and creativity creativity creativity
Use of class time Class time was used Occasionally did not Did not use class time Needed to be told
effectively use class time wisely wisely repeatedly to work

Total: ____/48 pts

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