How can I save an endangered Species?
How Do I Get Energy From the Sun?
Learning GoalsI can use evidence to explain how I get energy from the Sun.
I can predict how changes in a species population will affect a food web. |
Working GoalsWeek 5.
1. Read Ecosystem 5.1 and answer questions. Week 6 2. Complete "The Loneliest Species" Worksheet in Lab. 3. Pick your endangered species and Endangered Species Project Step 1 Worksheet (Given in Lab) 4. Complete the Endangered Survey Due Friday 2/7. 5. Read 5.2 and answer questions. Collected in your Lab (Monday or Wednesday). 6. Complete the photosynthesis and cellular respiration reading and questions. Week 7. 7. Complete the photosynthesis survey using the resources below.(Due Friday) 8. Complete the Classification of Endangered Species Survey (Due Friday)
Week 8 (February Break) 9. Complete the Endangered Species Research packet.
10. Complete the corresponding Endangered Species Research survey 11. Complete the food web packet (Not Mandatory: Level 4) Week 9 12. Watch "Strange Days on Planet Earth" and complete worksheet. 13. Create a food web and energy pyramid using the food web cards. 14. * Level 4 or 5: Create a food web and energy pyramid for your endangered species. |
Next Gen Science StandardsMS-LS1-6 Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for the role of photosynthesis in the cycling of matter and flow of energy into and out of organisms. MS-LS1-7 Develop a model to describe how food is rearranged through chemical reactions forming new molecules that support growth and/or release energy as this matter moves through an organism. |
I can use evidence to explain how I get energy from the Sun.
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Week 10
15. Watch the Photosynthesis and Invasive Species Video. 16. Complete the Photosynthesis and Invasive Species Video survey Due Friday at 4pm. 17. Read "Lion Fish Invasion!" (pages 20-22) and complete the skills sheet (Due Tuesday March 11) 18. *Level 4 or 5: Write a page about what invasive species are affecting your endangered animal. What would happen if your endangered animal were to be wiped out. (Due Tuesday March 11) |
MS-LS2-1 Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem.
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Week 11 (Packet due Friday)
16. Read and annotate "Green Genetics" 17. Transfer your group's food web to an energy pyramid 18. Predict changes in your food web 19. Write your argument for or against Green Genetics. Week 12 19. Dodging Extinction Reading and ELA Style Questions 20. Another View (Reading Homework: Due 3/20 in Lab) 21. Ecology Review Survey (Due 3/21) 22. Watch Challenges of Life Video and look for examples of how different adaptations aid in survival. |
MS-LS2-3 Develop a model to describe the cycling of matter and flow of energy among living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem.
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I can explain how adaptations aid in survival.
I can explain the mechanisms and outcomes of natural selection. |
Week 13
24. Adaptation and Survival - Create your own species and adaptations. (Started in Lab: Due 3/27) 23. Adaptations of Endangered Species Project: Started in Lab! 24. Puffin Up - Reading/ELA Strategies. * Not for workshop, but adaptation games from home: fun adaptation game Create an animal! Week 14. 25. Match the Beaks with the Seeds Game 26. Play the Evolution Experience 27. Complete Task #23 - Due April 10. Week 15 27. Adaptations of Endangered Species Project: Started in Lab! Due April 10 28. The Hunger Birds Game! Due in Lab April 10 29. Puffin Up Reading and Math Review. Due Friday Apirl 11 |
MS-LS2-2.Construct an explanation that predicts patterns of interactions among organisms across multiple ecosystems.
MS-LS2-5.Evaluate competing design solutions for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services. |