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Mosa Mack Lesson 2 Food Web Teacher Resource

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Carbon Cycle Seek and Find Science Doodle Page

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Students will enjoy learning about the Carbon Cycle with Seek & Find Science Doodles. Carbon Cycle key terms include Fossil Fuels, Decomposition, Respiration, Diffusion, Photosynthesis and Burning. Great for student engagement and retention. Suggestions for

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Mosa Mack Lesson 1 Food Web Teacher Resource

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Students will have a blast with this Cycling of Matter Digital Escape Room! Students will use their knowledge of the cycling of matter to make an EzPz Escape! Students are required to answer station cards and use a decoder to get the code that will break them out of the digital room.

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The NSTA Next Generation Science Standards Hub offers information, resources, news, professional learning opportunities, and expert advice in understanding and implementing the Next Generation Science Standards - NGSS

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The NSTA Next Generation Science Standards Hub offers information, resources, news, professional learning opportunities, and expert advice in understanding and implementing the Next Generation Science Standards - NGSS

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The NSTA Next Generation Science Standards Hub offers information, resources, news, professional learning opportunities, and expert advice in understanding and implementing the Next Generation Science Standards - NGSS

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The NSTA Next Generation Science Standards Hub offers information, resources, news, professional learning opportunities, and expert advice in understanding and implementing the Next Generation Science Standards - NGSS

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The NSTA Next Generation Science Standards Hub offers information, resources, news, professional learning opportunities, and expert advice in understanding and implementing the Next Generation Science Standards - NGSS

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Deer Populations SPA-- (MS Life Science) Student Version.pdf

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Unit Details - California Education and the Environment Initiative (EEI)

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Unit Details - California Education and the Environment Initiative (EEI)

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A Middle School Unit

A composite of lessons directed towards 6-8th grade students to dive into the subject of biodiversity. Students will participate in the scientific process, go on field trips and gain a depth of information on local biodiversity.

Essential Question

How do interactions between abiotic and biotic factors in ecosystems affect the biodiversity of those ecosystems?

Processes and Skills

At the end of this unit:

Students will understand how the cycling of materials such as carbon, water and nitrogen affect populations of organisms.

Students will investigate predatory relationships, competitive relationships, dispersal, disturbance, organism identification, food webs and human impacts on biodiversity.

Students will have gone through the scientific process of asking questions, making a hypothesis, collecting and analyzing data to present their information on a specific species and a local ecosystem.

Assessment opportunities:

Students will create a prairie poster.

Students will reflect on their field trip and be able to define biodiversity.

Students will be able to articulate relationships in ecosystems, disturbances on ecosystems, changes in local biodiversity and impacts of invasive species to a system.

Students will complete a field guide entry through a detailed species account.

Students will enter observations into a citizen science database, such as WyoBio website.

Performance Expectations: Next Generation Science Standards

Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem.

Construct and explanation that predicts patterns of interactions among organsims across multiple ecocystems.

Develop a model to describe the cycling of matter and flow of energy among living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem.

Construct an argument supported by emperical evidence that changes to physical or biological components of an ecosystem affect populations.

Evaluate competing design solutions for maintaining biodviersity and ecosystem services.

Disciplinary Core Ideas: Next Generation Science Standards
LS2.A: Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems

Organisms, and populations of organisms, are dependent on their environmental interactions both with other living things and with nonliving factors. (MS-LS2-1)

In any ecosystem, organisms and populations with similar requirements for food, water, oxygen, or other resources may compete with each other for limited resources, access to which consequently constraints their growth and reproduction. (MS-LS2-1)

Growth of organisms and population increases are limited by access to resource. (MS-LS2-1)

Similarly, predatory interactions may reduce the number of organisms or eliminate whole populations of organisms. Mutually beneficial interactions, in contrast, may become so interdependent that each organism requires the other for survival. Although the species involved in these competitive, predatory, and mutually beneficial interactions vary across ecosystems, the patterns of interactions of organisms with their environments, both living and nonliving, are shared. (MS-LS2-2)

LS2.B Cycle of Matter and Energy Transformation in Ecosystems

Food webs are models that demonstrate how matter and energy is transferred between producers, consumers, and decomposers as the three groups interact within an ecosystem. Transfers of matter into and out of the physical environment occur at every level. Decomposers recycle nutrients from dead plant or animal matter back to the soil in terrestrial environments or to the water in aquatic environments. The atoms that make up the organisms in an ecosystem are cycled repeatedly between the living and nonliving parts of the ecosystem. (MS-LS2-3)
LS2.C: Ecosystem Dynamics, Functioning and Resilience LS2.D: Biodiversity and Humans

Ecosystems are dynamic in nature; their characteristics can vary over time Disruptions to any physical or biological component of an ecosystem can lead to shifts in all its populations. (MS-LS2-4)

Biodiversity describes the variety of species found in Earth's terrestrial and oceanic ecosystems. The completeness or integrity of an ecosystem's biodiversity is often used as a measure of its health. (MS-LS2-5)

LS2.E: Developing Possible Solutions

Changes in biodiversity can influence humans' resources, such as food, energy, and medicines, as well as ecosystem services that humans rely on- for example water purification and recycling. (MS-LS2-5)

There are systematic processes for evaluating solutions with respect to how well they meet the criteria and constraints of a problem. (MS-LS2-5)
SC8.1.4 Diversity of Organisms
Wyoming State Standards

Students investigate the interconnectedness of organisms, identifying similarity and diversity of organisms through classification system of hierarchal relationships among producers, consumers and decomposersS.

SC8.1.5 Behavior and Adaptations
SC8.1.6 Interrelationships of Populations and Ecosystems

Students recognize behavior as a response of an organism to an internal or environmental stimulus to connect the characteristics and behaviors of an organism to biological adaptation.

Students illustrate populations of organisms and their interconnection within an ecosystem, identifying relationships among producers, consumers and decomposers.

Contributors

Unit Creation: Deb Freitas

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A composite of lessons directed towards 6-8th grade students to dive into the subject of biodiversity. Students will participate in the scientific process, go on field trips and gain a depth of information on local biodiversity.

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The NSTA Next Generation Science Standards Hub offers information, resources, news, professional learning opportunities, and expert advice in understanding and implementing the Next Generation Science Standards - NGSS

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Answer the question: What's It Like Where You Live? Learn about terrestrial biomes and aquatic ecosystems. Follow link to site about plants.

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Biomes are regions of the world with similar climate (weather, temperature) animals and plants. There are
Aquatic Biomes | Terrestrial Biomes | What are biomes? GAMES! terrestrial biomes (land) and
aquatic biomes , both freshwater and marine.

Would you like to know what the weather is like in different biomes around the world? How about the types of plants and animals that live in these biomes? Here you will find all sorts of information about the world's biomes.
Games
How many biomes are there? There is really no completely right answer to this question. Some people say there are only 5 major types of biomes: aquatic, desert, forest, grassland, and tundra. Others split biomes further. Forests are separated into rainforest, temperate forest, chaparral, and taiga; grasslands are divided into savanna and temperate grasslands; and the aquatic biome is split into freshwater and marine.
Kids Konnect: Biomes Enchanted Learning: Biomes ThinkQuest: Biomes Major Biomes of the World NASA - Mission: Biomes World Biomes
Links to more information:
Back to Biomes Index

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Biomes are regions of the world with similar climate (weather, temperature) animals and plants. There are Aquatic Biomes | Terrestrial Biomes | What are biomes? GAMES! terrestrial biomes (land) and aquatic biomes , both freshwater and marine. Would you like to know what the weather is like in different biomes around the world?