Data – Orcas

Use Data to Research

Learning Highlights:

  • Access information in Excel using data types and data cards.
  • Compare and contrast taxonomic data to explore differences and similarities of organisms.
  • Use data cards to access geographic data related to orca sighting locations.

Learning Standards:

  • Apply scientific ideas to construct an explanation for the anatomical similarities and differences among modern organisms and between modern and fossil organisms to infer evolutionary relationships.
  • Students collect data or identify relevant data sets, use digital tools to analyze them, and represent data in various ways to facilitate problem-solving and decision-making.

Use Data to Investigate

Learning Highlights:

  • Investigate data to describe feeding relationships in an ecosystem.
  • Explore multiple sources of data to explain how toxins can influence the health of populations in an ecosystem.
  • Analyze multiple acoustic data to provide evidence for the effects of sound pollution on a population.

Learning Standards:

  • Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem.
  • Construct an argument supported by empirical evidence that changes to physical or biological components of an ecosystem affect populations.
  • Students collect data or identify relevant data sets, use digital tools to analyze them, and represent data in various ways to facilitate problem-solving and decision-making.