Grades 9-12 Teacher Guide

Aligned with Missouri standards and packed full of classroom resources, our Nature Unbound Teacher Guide includes all you need to teach high school students about the impact of ecology on Missouri and the world.

PDFs of each chapter are listed below. Download and explore them, then contact your MDC education specialist to order copies for your class.

Grades 9-12 Teacher Guide Intro

Browse the Nature Unbound Teacher Guide notes, alignment to Missouri standards, science course level expectations alignment, ecology CLEs, assessments and materials list.

Grades 9-12 Teacher Guide Lesson One

Including lots of teaching tools and covering six CLEs, What is Ecology? equips you to introduce students to the study of ecology.

Grades 9-12 Teacher Guide Lesson Two

Including detailed classroom resources and covering 11 CLEs, Reproduction and Adaptation describes reproduction, genetic traits, adaptation and natural selection.

Grades 9-12 Teacher Guide Lesson Three

Filled with teaching tools and covering 10 CLEs, Population Checks and Balances equips you to teach students how ecologists measure populations and how resources and limiting factors affect population.

Grades 9-12 Teacher Guide Lesson Four

With lots of teaching tools and covering 10 CLEs, Interaction–Costs and Benefits of Survival helps you teach students how organisms compete for resources and how that affects survival.

Grades 9-12 Teacher Guide Lesson Five

Covering 14 CLEs, Extinction: Causes and Consequences is packed with materials to help you teach how extinction occurs, describe the five great mass extinctions of the past and the current human-induced sixth, and explore the consequences.

Grades 9-12 Teacher Guide Lesson Six

Covering 10 CLEs, Exploring the Nature of Energy Flow includes all the classroom resources you need to teach students how energy flows through an ecosystem’s food chain.

Grades 9-12 Teacher Guide Lesson Seven

Covering 14 CLEs, The Cycling of Elements Through Ecosystems includes all the classroom tools you need to teach students how atoms move through ecosystems over long periods of time.

Grades 9-12 Teacher Guide Lesson Eight

Covering six CLEs, Diversity and the Disturbance of Biological Communities includes classroom resources to help you teach students how ecologists measure biological communities and what biodiversity means.

Grades 9-12 Teacher Guide Lesson Nine

Covering three CLEs, Culminating Activity—Researching and Planning Like a Resource Manager includes classroom and field resources you need to teach the hands-on process of ecosystem restoration using appropriate tools to gather data and plan a multi-step management process.

Grades 9-12 Teacher Guide Appendices

Includes definitions of 165 terms introduced in Nature Unbound and metric conversion charts.