Bledsoe Creek State Park

Description: Homeschool Thursday: Survival of the Lucky

Location: Bledsoe Creek State Park

Learn about how limiting factors affect an organism's ability to survive with this board-game class activity! Students will discuss the different factors that can harm or help a population, then play a fun-filled board game based on luck.

This program will be held outside at Shelter 2 located on Raccoon Creek Ln. For accessibility information, check out our Essential Eligibility Criteria.

This program is designed for ages 7 and up. The following state learning standards will be covered:

• 3.LS4.1: Use evidence to explain the cause-and-effect relationship between a naturally changing habitat and how well an organism survives.
• 4.LS2.4: Analyze and interpret data about changes in the environment to explain how some organisms may survive and reproduce, some may not survive, others move to new locations, yet others move into the transformed environment.
• 6.LS2.1: Use data to evaluate and communicate the impact of environmental variables, both living and nonliving (e.g., food, water, oxygen, and other resources), on population size within a system.