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Ecology & 
Organizing the Environment

Write in Planner

#7 Ecology Drawings
#8 Ecology Worksheet and Presentation

Daily Warm-Up

Looking at the globe (Earth) and lamp (Sun) at the front of class answer the following:

  1. What season is it in the Northern Hemisphere?  

  2. What do you think the climate is like in Alaska this time of year?














Class 1 
Drawing: Your Wild Place
  • Label the top of paper: Your Name and Period.
  • Close eyes and think of a natural place that you are familiar with (a park you have visited, the river in the summer, etc.).
  • Draw this place using the paper and your color pencils.
  • Label where this place is.












Label these parts of your drawing.
    • Abiotic (at least 3)
    • Biotic (at least 3)
    • Organism (circle, identify, and label at least 10)
    • Population (circle and label)
    • Community (circle and label)
    • Ecosystem (circle and label)





Turn in your Drawings to the front of class (2 min timer).

Handout / Worksheet
Ecological Organization
Picture

Ecology Handout 1.pdf
File Size: 1326 kb
File Type: pdf
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Eco Handout Student.pdf
File Size: 1305 kb
File Type: pdf
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View my Ecological Organization Handout above or click on the PDF to your right to download and print a higher quality version.  I have also provided student version with blank spaces to fill in  during class.

Read Up
Ecological Organization - Mr. Sapora's online Ecology textbook

Teach 1
Ecology & The Organization of Life

Class 2
Roxy Ann Poster
Discuss an ecological organization in our backyard.


Alaska - Buldir Island bird biologist - If additional time 
(gallery of photos that we can look at and discuss ecological organization)

Picture

Closer

3-2-1 on back of Ecology Worksheet.
  • 3 Things you learned.  
  • 2 things you have questions about. 
  • 1 thing you want me, the instructor, to know...what went well, what did you like, what did you not enjoy, what would like to do more or less of - be respectful yet honest.





Place in baseket at front of class when bell rings.  
This will be checked off as a Complete or Fix.




Assignments Due

  • Your Wild Place Drawing
  • Ecology 1 Handout / Worksheet
  • 3-2-1 Exit Slip

Assessments
  • Drawing - Pre-Assessment (Formative / Non-Graded)
  • 3-2-1 Exit Slip - (Formative / Non-Graded)

Standards

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


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.


Links
  • Ecological Organization - Mr. Sapora's online Ecology textbook
  • Ecosystem Activity - Craters of the Moon National Park: http://www.nps.gov/crmo/forteachers/activity-4b.htm
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