Students will encounter a puzzling local habitat phenomenon, analyze adaptation and resource patterns, and develop a focused, investigable research question with a clear hypothesis to guide their field investigation.

Students will design a systematic investigation plan that aligns with their habitat research question, identifying variables, selecting an appropriate methodology type, planning data collection procedures, conducting a brief background review, and revising their plan through structured peer feedback before beginning field data collection.

Students will systematically gather qualitative and quantitative field data aligned to their investigable research questions, document collection conditions and anomalies, conduct mid-collection quality checks, and prepare organized raw datasets that will serve as the evidence base for analysis in the next phase.

Students will transform raw field data into meaningful interpretations by creating visualizations, identifying patterns and anomalies, challenging one another’s interpretations, and determining whether their evidence supports, contradicts, or complicates their original hypotheses about adaptation and resource availability.

Students will draw evidence-based conclusions from their habitat investigations, explicitly acknowledge limitations, generate new research questions, and present their full investigative process—from question through methodology, data, analysis, and sustainability implications—at a culminating Green Innovation Summit.