Working with our Driving Question Board!

Sixth grade students are seeing how biologists study interactions between organisms and their environment.  Biologists are also concerned with populations of organisms, and not just one specific organism within a population.  As they study populations, biologists try to make sense of the changes that can occur with a population.  Sixth graders worked on their questioning techniques (just like real scientists do) to uncover questions biologists would ask of a changing population.  We narrowed down the categories of what would cause changes into these four factors:  food, other organisms, environment, and reproduction.  We're working on what types of questions biologists would ask...