Falling Into Balance: Deciduous Trees and Homeostasis
Assessment · Grade 7 · Science
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Name: Engage
Minutes: 10
Purpose: Surface students' prior knowledge and spark curiosity about why deciduous trees lose their leaves by presenting a puzzling real-world phenomenon, creating the need-to-know that drives the rest of the lesson toward modeling homeostasis and negative feedback in plants.
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Q1. Draw and label a diagram showing the negative feedback loop a deciduous tree uses when days get shorter and temperatures drop. Include: stimulus, receptor, chemical signal, response, and how the loop 'closes.'
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