Grade 6 · Science · Lesson 24

Biodiversity and Conservation Plans

Look around any healthy forest, river, or coral reef and you will see something powerful: a HUGE variety of living things sharing the same place. Tall trees, tiny mosses, bright birds, beetles, fish, fungi, and bacteria you cannot even see. That variety of life is called BIODIVERSITY. The more biodiversity an ecosystem has, the stronger it is — like a team with many different skills. Today we will look at why biodiversity matters, what threatens it, and how scientists and citizens write a CONSERVATION PLAN to protect it.

What this lesson teaches

1Define biodiversity and explain why a healthy ecosystem depends on it
2Identify the main human-caused threats to biodiversity around the world
3Match each threat to the conservation action that best addresses it
4Write a clear, six-part conservation plan for a species or ecosystem at risk

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