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E-mail: Ajaklis12@gmail.com
Course Name: ED 222 - Technology in the Classroom
College: Butler Community College
Current Semester: Spring 2018
Professor Name: Dr. Shellie Gutierrez

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What is an ecosystem?

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1. What are the primary characteristics of an ecosystem?

2. What is a food chain?

3. How is a food web different from a food chain? How are they similar?

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Students will learn what an ecosystem is, as well as what is found in an ecosystem through taking notes, playing a game, and working through some activities made to teach them about the characteristics of an ecosystem.

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Science, Biology

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6-8
9-12

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1. List five abiotic and five biotic components that might be found in an ecosystem.

2. Describe at least one relationship that can be found in an ecosystem.

3. Draw and label a food chain containing at least one producer, two primary consumers, one secondary consumer, and a decomposer.

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1. Start the lesson by having students tell you what they know of ecosystems by raising their hands before answering. This should take 2-3 minutes at most.

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1. Start the lesson by having students tell you what they know of ecosystems by raising their hands before answering. This should take 2-3 minutes at most.

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2. Then provide them with resources, such as paper and crayons, colored pencils, or markers, and ask them to draw a simple food chain with some labels if they can. Allow 5 minutes at most, though you should ask after the first few minutes to see if everyone is ready to move on.

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3. Allow them to keep their food chains as they can use them later to see how much more they learned.

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3. Allow them to keep their food chains as they can use them later to see how much more they learned.

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4. Once everyone is ready, play a short video on ecosystems to give them a brief understanding.

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5. Afterwards, proceed with notes in anyway you wish. Try to make them short and to the point to make it easier and quicker for the students to follow along. Try to keep the notes to about 10 minutes or less if you can get away with it.

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5. Afterwards, proceed with notes in anyway you wish. Try to make them short and to the point to make it easier and quicker for the students to follow along. Try to keep the notes to about 10 minutes or less if you can get away with it.

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6. Once the notes are done, set up the kahoot game with your class. 10-15 minutes for the game is reasonable, and don’t forget some kind of reward for the top players.

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7. Have students take 10-15 minutes to play the Make a Mangrove game on school provided laptops.

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7. Have students take 10-15 minutes to play the Make a Mangrove game on school provided laptops.

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http://pbskids.org/plumlanding/games/ecosystem/make_a_mangrove.html

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8. Hand out supplies again and have your students draw a detailed food web this time. Make sure to tell them to see how much their knowledge has grown by having them compare the drawings from the beginning of the lesson to the one they just made. 5-10 minutes for this activity should be enough. Finally, pass out a short quiz to be completed and handed in for credit. I will be using the three student objectives other than the food web and food chain objectives as questions on the quiz.

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8. Hand out supplies again and have your students draw a detailed food web this time. Make sure to tell them to see how much their knowledge has grown by having them compare the drawings from the beginning of the lesson to the one they just made. 5-10 minutes for this activity should be enough. Finally, pass out a short quiz to be completed and handed in for credit. I will be using the three student objectives other than the food web and food chain objectives as questions on the quiz.

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9. If some students finish before the allotted time, then you may give them a specific food chain project to create. Have some specific biomes written down on scraps of paper for the student(s) to draw from. What ever biome they choose will be what they must create a food chain for, which will require them to choose only organisms from that specific biome.
10. They may also be given another ecosystem game to play from the pbskids website. http://pbskids.org/plumlanding/games/index.html

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About 55-60 minutes for the lesson in class and about 60-90 minutes for preparation outside of class.

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None

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Technology: Laptops, Projection System, smart phones for Kahoot.
Printed Materials or Supplies: Peper for the drawing activities and something to draw/color with.
Internet Resources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPHqUxxyLsY

kahoot.com

http://pbskids.org/plumlanding/games/ecosystem/make_a_mangrove.html

http://pbskids.org/plumlanding/games/index.html

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·The activities are split up in small sections to allow a teacher and any paras to offer assistance if needed.
·Vocabulary used will be as basic as possible to allow all time to take down notes.
·There will be pictures and visual cues with some of the notes.

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·Same as for the special needs learners, the activities will be split up to allow time for the students to work through each problem and ask for help if needed.
·Careful attention will be maintained to see if things must be slowed down or if a student needs help from a teacher or classmate.
·Pictures and visual cues will help non-native English speakers as well.

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·If need be, gifted students can be given specific biomes that they must make food chain projects for. It will require them to choose organisms found in the specific biome they choose for the project.
·They may also be given another pbskids ecosystem game to play, such as Feed the Dingo, Mountain Scramble, or Jungle Jeopardy.