Relationship issues? Organisms have them too! In this fun card matching game, students will have to find their relationship "match" and decide what kind of interaction the two organisms have together. With 40 organism cards to choose from, students can play this game multiple times while learning about ecological relationships such as (symbiosis) mutualism, commensalism, predator-prey, competition, and parasitism.
 
Includes:
40 Game Cards with Organisms
Student Worksheet
Student Sample & Directions
Teacher Guide
Answer Key
 
Standards Included:
MS-LS2-2 (NGSS- Next Generation Science Standards)
Construct an explanation that predicts patterns of interactions among organisms across multiple ecosystems. Emphasis is on predicting consistent patterns of interactions in different ecosystems in terms of the relationships among and between organisms and abiotic components of ecosystems. Examples of types of interactions could include competitive, predatory, and mutually beneficial.
SC.7.L.17.2 (CPALMS)
Compare and contrast the relationships among organisms such as mutualism, predation, parasitism, competition, and commensalism.