Introduction:

This week-long unit is an interactive game with printable game board and pieces. Author recommends leading this unit after completing the unit,  K’iwinya’n: The Preferred Acorn of Hupas (Na:tinixwe). This ensures students have a foundational understanding of the Tanoak acorn before playing the game.  

Essential questions:

• What does a tanoak tree need to grow?

• What are the stages of growth of a tanoak tree?

• How do humans promote and disrupt the ecosystem around them?

• How do biotic and abiotic factors affect our ecosystem? 

• Which biotic and abiotic events occur in an ecosystem (like that of Northern California) and how do they affect the organisms of that ecosystem?

• How does resource availability affect populations of living things in an ecosystem?

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