HAWAII FACTS
What makes Hawai‘i different from the rest of the United States?
What is isolation, unique plants, unique animal and climate?
What small insect is the focus of the new unit?
What are Hawaiian fruit flies?
What is the board called where we keep our questions?
What are Driving Question Boards?
What is a scientific model?
A representation that helps explain how or why something happens.
What is one thing in Hawai‘i that has changed over time?
What are Climate, vegetation, species diversity?
Name one pattern students observed when comparing Hawai‘i to the mainland.
What are different rainfall, elevation, species, temperatures, vegetation?
Why are scientists interested in Hawaiian fruit flies?
What are amazing variation and over 800 species?
Why do scientists ask questions before making models?
To guide investigation and understand what they need to explain.
In Lesson 1, what did your model attempt to show?
How plants and animals in Hawai‘i may have changed over time.
True or False: Changes in environment can affect which species survive.
What is true?
Why does Hawaii have so many unusual species?
What are geographic isolation ?
Name one thing all fruit flies need to survive.
What are Food, water, shelter, safe place to lay eggs, etc?
Give an example of a “why” question students added during Lesson 1.
Why are there so many fruit flies? Why are plants so different? etc.
What pattern did students look for when comparing the climate and life in Hawai‘i?
Similarities/differences in rainfall, elevation, vegetation, species distribution.
What did Episode 1 of Hawaiian Flies help students notice?
What is Hawaii has many different fruit flies with different traits?
What is one question scientists might ask about Hawai‘i’s environment?
What are things tied to climate, species diversity, or how environment shapes evolution?
What evidence did you observe in Lesson 1 that fruit flies have changed over time?
What are changes in wing patterns, behavior, distribution across islands, etc.
What makes a question testable in science?
It can be investigated using data, observation, or evidence.
Why do scientists revise models?
Because new evidence helps improve or correct their explanation.
How might environment cause fruit flies to develop different traits?
What are different food sources, predators, climates, or habitats select different traits over generations?
Why has Hawai‘i developed so many unique species compared to the mainland United States?
What is Hawai‘i being geographically isolated, which limits species movement and allows unique organisms to develop over time?
What characteristics help fruit flies survive and successfully reproduce in their environment?
What are traits and behaviors that increase a fruit fly’s chances of surviving and reproducing in its environment?
What type of question helps scientists investigate relationships in nature?
What is a question that helps scientists investigate cause-and-effect relationships in nature?
Why do scientists revise their models when new evidence or patterns are discovered?
What is using evidence and patterns to revise a scientific model so it better explains a phenomenon?
What process causes certain traits in a population to increase or decrease over many generations?
What is natural selection causing certain traits to become more common while others become less common over generations?