Day 5 - (2/11)
Ecosystem review & scavenger hunt.
Ecosystem review & scavenger hunt.
Write in Planner
- Ecology Review
- #11 Ecology Scavenger Hunt
Daily Warm-Up
Write on White-Boards what A, B, C, and D are.
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Ecology Review
Get your whiteboards ready!!!
Ecology Scavenger Hunt (#11)
View or download the handout below. This is handout / assignment #11 in your daily planner.
Closer
3-2-1 on back of Data Sheet.
- 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.
BBC video on moths
Amazing diversity of insects in the tropics...watch this researcher as he shows up some crazy critters.
Read Up
Mr. Sapora's Online Ecology Textbook
Producers
Consumers and Decomposers
Topics Covered
REVIEW OF PREVIOUS MATERIAL covered in lesson plans 1-3.
Vocabulary (students are expected to know)
Wow! This is a lot!!! I will make a study sheet. You already have most of this down though, so that is...well, awesome.
Students should be able to apply vocabulary terms from lesson plans 1-3 to real-life situations in the field.
- Ecology: the scientific study of the interactions between organisms and their environment.
- Biotic: all the living things in the environment.
- Abiotic: all the physical factors in the environment that affect living organisms - Temperature, Light, Water, Nutrients.
- Organism: the individual living unit - you, me, a bird, a tree, a single cell organism.
- Population: a group of individuals of the same species that live together in the same area.
- Community: ALL of the populations of different species that live and interact in one area.
- Ecosystem: a community of organisms and its abiotic environment.
- Biosphere: the part of our planet with living organisms.
- Producer: organisms that use sunlight to directly make food.
- Consumer: organisms that eat producers or other organisms for energy.
- Herbivore: a consumer that eats plants for energy.
- Carnivore: a consumer that eats animals and other consumers for energy.
- Omnivore: a consumer that eats both producers and consumers for energy.
- Scavenger: animals that feed on the bodies of dead animals for energy.
- Decomposer: organisms that get energy by breaking down the remains of dead organisms.
Standards
2009 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.
7.2 The components and processes within a system interact.
7.2L.2 Explain the processes by which plants and animals obtain energy and materials
for growth and metabolism.
7.2L.2.1 Cellular respiration
7.2L.2.3 Photosynthesis
7.2L.2.4 Energy conversion in plant cells
Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) (based on May, 2012 draft)
MS.LS-MEOE Matter and Energy in Organisms and Ecosystems.
LS1.C: Organization for Matter and Energy Flow in Organisms.
LS2.B: Cycle of Matter and Energy Transfer in Ecosystems.
MS.LS-IRE Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems.
LS2.A: Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems.
Links and Additional Resources
