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• In this Biodiversity Counts activity, students use their arthropod knowledge to create and play a classroom Jeopardy-style game. The printable five-page PDF handout includes:

  • a series of inquiry-based questions to help students identify what they already know about arthropods, and
  • step-by-step directions for developing Jeopardy-style quiz questions in three categories—What Is an Arthropod?, What Do Arthropods Do and Where Do They Do It?, and Who's Who in the Phylum Arthropoda?

• Completion Time

  Approximately 1 period

• Topic

  Biology

• Subtopic

  Animals

• Subtopic

  National Science Education Standards
  Science as Inquiry CONTENT STANDARD A:

  • abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry• understanding about scientific inquiry

  Life Science CONTENT STANDARD C:

  • structure and function in living systems• reproduction and heredity• regulation and behavior• populations and ecosystems• diversity and adaptations of organisms

  Science in Personal and Social Perspectives CONTENT STANDARD F:

  • populations, resources, and environments

  History and Nature of Science CONTENT STANDARD G:

  • nature of science

  Grades 9-12:
  Science as Inquiry CONTENT STANDARD A:

  • abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry• understanding about scientific inquiry

  Life Science CONTENT STANDARD C:

  • biological evolution• interdependence of organisms• matter, energy, and organization in living systems• behavior of organisms

  Science in Personal and Social Perspectives CONTENT STANDARD F:

  • environmental quality

  History and Nature of Science CONTENT STANDARD G:

  • nature of scientific knowledge

• Learning Standard

  National Science Education Standards
  Science as Inquiry CONTENT STANDARD A:

  • abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry• understanding about scientific inquiry

  Life Science CONTENT STANDARD C:

  • structure and function in living systems• reproduction and heredity• regulation and behavior• populations and ecosystems• diversity and adaptations of organisms

  Science in Personal and Social Perspectives CONTENT STANDARD F:

  • populations, resources, and environments

  History and Nature of Science CONTENT STANDARD G:

  • nature of science

  Grades 9-12:
  Science as Inquiry CONTENT STANDARD A:

  • abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry• understanding about scientific inquiry

  Life Science CONTENT STANDARD C:

  • biological evolution• interdependence of organisms• matter, energy, and organization in living systems• behavior of organisms

  Science in Personal and Social Perspectives CONTENT STANDARD F:

  • environmental quality

  History and Nature of Science CONTENT STANDARD G:

  • nature of scientific knowledge