Do Now: Be ready to tell the class what topic you are working on for your conservation project.
Driving Question: What are the problems in the conservation areas that make conservation necessary? Learning Goal: Obtain and communicate information in an effort to understand a complicated ecological problem and organize and create ways to communicate our information for an audience. TASK: This assignment is on Google Classroom, but also given on paper. Students will research the species in their food web and the biotic and abiotic factors affecting their endangered species or ecosystem.
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Do Now: We are electrical beings. How many people can we get in a chain and still conduct electricity? Learning Goal: Analyze and Interpret Data to learn about the limiting factors affecting elephant populations and relate the elephants to the whole ecosystem. Driving Question: Can populations of organisms grow without limits? Connect: How does today's driving question relate to you? Watch a short video of a phenomenon with elephants.
Do Now: Please get your handout from yesterday. Say hello to your team and find out one thing they did yesterday after school.
Finish what we started yesterday... Creating Chains and Webs Handout
Task: Use your handout to guide your group to: - Work with your group to create a food chain, identifying the producers and consumers. - Use the model to show the loss of energy between different trophic levels. - Predict how a disturbance to the food web will affect different trophic levels - Compare and contrast the three different types of models we used today. What is each one good for showing? What is a limitation? EXPLAIN which model might be better for most effectively representing the relationships among organisms in your ecosystem. IF WE HAVE TIME: How do humans affect food webs? New handout: Food Webs Activity Begin doing some research by examining wildlife images from Gorongosa Park Exit ticket: Collaboration Exit Ticket Do Now: Talk with your table...can you name a food that was not once a living thing? (Scientifically, a food is anything that provides both energy (calories) and atoms to build with)
DRIVING QUESTION: How does life continue on Earth without running out of resources? (food = building blocks to make cells, energy) Learning Goal: Create and use a model of ecological relationships between organisms to understand how energy and matter (atoms) are cycled through organisms. Creating Chains and Webs Handout
Task: Use your handout to guide your group to: - Work with your group to create a food chain, identifying the producers and consumers. - Use the model to show the loss of energy between different trophic levels. Exit ticket: Collaboration Exit Ticket Do Now: Would you rather? Think and share with your table.
Finish writing our carnivorous flower explanation from yesterday in Google Classroom Find the Food Web in our back yard
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Finish using the model of the nitrogen cycle to understand how plants get the nitrogen they need to make proteins. Do not complete the last page. Extension and Assessment - Google Classroom assignment Thinking Routine: Connect - Extend - Challenge FOCUS while reading: Food, Nutrients, Proteins
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June 2023
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