What do coyotes eat? What types of food are the coyotes likely to find in each of their territories? What food sources might be present that habituate coyotes to humans? How do wildlife biologists verify what coyotes are eating in a given territory? Create a food web or chart for a coyote. Or, create a Coyote Cafe Menu!
3-LS1-1 (Upper Elementary)
Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death.
3-LS4-2 (Upper Elementary)
Use evidence to construct an explanation for how the variations in characteristics among individuals of the same species may provide advantages in surviving, finding mates, and reproducing.
3-LS4-3 (Upper Elementary)
Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.
4-LS1-1 (Upper Elementary)
Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
HS-LS2-1 (High School)
Use mathematical and/or computational representations to support explanations of factors that affect carrying capacity of ecosystems at different scales.
MS-LS2-1 (Middle School)
Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem.
MS-LS2-2 (Middle School)
Construct an explanation that predicts patterns of interactions among organisms across multiple ecosystems.