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Where in the World is Mr. Sapora?


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#6 Ecology Pre-Assessment.


Presentation & Class Discussion - Biosphere

Daily Warm-Up


Share with your elbow partner and be ready with an answer:
What is a CLIMATE?
















Mr. Sapora Intro!

How I plan to teach the class:
  • Website Tour: 4 Students Page.
  • Daily Pages.
  • Test Dates (tentative)...
  • Classroom Management.






Class 1 
Ecology Pre-Assessment
  • Short NON-GRADED quiz to see what you already know.



Teach 1
Nature's Borders: Discovering our Biosphere & Biomes

Closer
Mr. Sapora's World Tour Photos

Read Up
Intro to Ecology - Mr. Sapora's online Ecology textbook
Biomes - Mr. Sapora's online Ecology textbook
Biome Video
How Climate Influences Life
Biome Video
Biomes of the World
Topics Covered
  1. The Biosphere - why and how there is life on Earth.
  2. Major factors influencing the distribution of Earth’s Biomes.

Student Understandings
  1. Life on Earth requires four basic things: water, energy (light), nutrients, and temperature (at which life can exist).
  2. The Earth is tilted on its Axis (23.5 degrees) - this causes there to be different seasons and different climates due to different heating patterns throughout the year.  
  3. These variations (seasons and climates) create Biomes, which are large ecosystems - geographic areas characterized by certain types of plant and animal communities.
  4. Mr. Sapora has traveled to most of the Earth’s Biomes and has random stories about them.


Vocabulary
  • Biosphere - the part of our planet with living organisms.
  • Biome - a geographic area of the planet characterized by certain types of plant and animal communities - or a large, generic ecosystem.
  • Climate - The weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long period.

Assignments Due
  • N/A
Assessments
  • Ecology Quiz - Pre-Assessment.  Formative - non-graded.

Standards
Oregon State Science Standards
6.2 The related parts within a system interact and change.
6.2L.2 Explain how individual organisms and populations in an ecosystem interact and how changes in populations are related to resources.
6.2L.2.1 Organisms interact as populations.
6.2L.2.2 Different populations interact as communities.
6.2L.2.3 Communities interact with the environment as ecosystems.

7.2Interaction and Change: The components and processes within a system interact.
7.2L.2 Explain the processes by which plants and animals obtain energy and material for growth and metabolism.

Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) (based on May, 2012 draft)
MS.LS-IRE Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems.
LS2.A:  Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems.


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