Ticks Up Close (NEW)

Students will use microscopes to observe local tick species, learn how the most common tick species on the East Coast spread Lyme disease, and discuss the many ecosystems and climate factors that control tick populations.

**Capacity may be limited in compliance with public health guidelines in effect on the day of your visit.

Explore our virtual Ticks! field trip program

Subjects: Life Science
Program Type: Cumming Nature Center Experiences
NYS Standards:

• 3-LS1-1 Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death.

• 4-LS1-1 Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.

• MS-LS2-1 Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem.

• MS-LS2-4 Construct an argument supported by empirical evidence that changes to physical or biological components of an ecosystem affect population.

• MS-LS1-5 Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how environmental and genetic factors influence the growth of organisms.

NGSS Keywords: Life Science, Ecosystems. Structure, Function & Information Processing, Organisms, Plants & Animals

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