October 28, 2008

OBJECTIVE: Students will develop a letter in order to analyze how humans impact the ecosystem.

WARM-UP: Are you a once-ler or a lorax and why?

VOCABULARY:
1) omnivore
2) parasitism
3) pollution
4) predation
5) producer

CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-Up/Vocabulary
2) Review activity with manipulatives
3) Powerpoint/discussion of human impact on ecosystems.
3) Discussion of Lorax book
4) Development of Lorax letter
5) Closure

October 21, 2008

OBJECTIVE: Students will develop a letter in order to analyze the impact humans have on ecosystems.

WARM-UP: List 3 natural resources

VOCABULARY:
1) GENETIC DIVERSITY
2) GREENHOUSE EFFECT
3) HABITAT
4) HERBIVORE
5) HETEROTROPH

CLASSWORK:
1) warm-up/vocabulary
2) finish lab
3) letter
4) closure

October 14, 2008

OBJECTIVE: Students will analyze a book in order to understand how organisms rely on each other.

WARM-UP: What would happen in the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem if the blue crab went extinct?

VOCABULARY:
1) biosphere
2) biotic factor
3) chemosynthesis
4) climate
5) community

CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-Up/ vocabulary
2) Powerpoint presentation and/or movie
3) Review trophic levels
4) Lorax
5) Closure

October 7, 2008

OBJECTIVE: Students develop a food web in order to examine how organisms depend on one another.

WARM-UP: List 2 organisms that rely on each other so much that the death of one would cause the death of the other.

VOCABULARY:
1) abiotic factor
2) autotroph
3) biodiversity
4) biomass
5) biome

CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-Up/ vocabulary
2) Review Test
3) Begin ecology/food web
4) Review Ecology worksheets
5) Closure