Kōkiri Lab
Kōkiri Lab

Biodiversity & Discovery · Week 6 of 9

Which habitat has more life?

Make sense of it · How sure are we? · Say what we found

VOICE Interpret · Uncertainty · Finding

Today's goal

Make an evidence-based finding comparing habitats and say how sure we are.

By the end

Finding states evidence and a certainty level.

What we'll do (60 minutes)

  1. Combine class data: richness vs abundance10 min
  2. Interpret: which habitat has more life? What is the evidence?15 min
  3. Uncertainty: what could we have missed (effort, timing, method)?10 min
  4. Thinking check 2 (individual)15 min
  5. Next step: what would make the claim stronger?10 min

Need a hand?

Sentence starters; one comparison only.

Want a challenge?

Explain how sampling effort could change the result.

AI this week

Kōkako, your AI mentor: Asks you one question at a time, such as “What evidence supports that?”. It never tells you the answer or whether you are right. You: Write the finding in your own words, including how sure you are.

This week includes a Thinking check: a short task you do on your own, so you and your teacher can see how your thinking is growing. It is not marked.

Student worksheets for Biodiversity & Discovery (Word)