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Feb 16-20, 2026
6TH GRADE SCIENCE
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Topic: Populations and Resources lesson 1
Objective: How do births and deaths in a population affect its size?
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Introducing Glacier Sea: Students are introduced to the unit problem and their role as student ecologists.
Do: Students use a physical model to investigate how births and deaths affect the size of a population.
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Topic: Populations and Resources lesson 2
Objective: How do births and deaths in a population affect its size?
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Observe: Students watch a video that shows a demonstration of stability and change of a system.
Reviewing Key Concepts and Vocabulary: Students review the @Home Science Wall, including the Chapter Questions, key concepts, and vocabulary.
Reflect: Students receive data about the jelly population and use it to create a model showing why the population increased.
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Topic: Population and resources lesson 3
Objective: What can cause a population to increase and decrease?
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Read: Students see examples of Active Reading strategies, with a focus on making deeper connections, then read the Reproduction and Energy article set.
Talk: Students share annotations with a partner and revisit the making deeper connections strategy.
Do: Students use the Populations and Resources Sim, or watch a video of the Sim investigation, to gather evidence about the connection between reproduction and energy.
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Topic: Population and Resources lesson 4 and 5
Objective: What can cause a population to increase and decrease?
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Observe: Students watch a video of an experiment with yeast and sugar to learn more about energy storage molecules.
Observe: Students watch a video showing scientists giving crickets different amounts of sugar and observing the effect on the crickets’ reproduction.
Introduce: Students are introduced to food webs.
Do: Students use the Populations and Resources Sim, or watch a video of the Sim investigation, to observe the effects of changing the size of a resource population on the births in a consumer population.
Talk: Students discuss with a partner how the number of births in a population can change.
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7TH GRADE SCIENCE
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Topic: Physical/ Biological Factors in an Ecosystem
Objective: Students will learn about what makes up an ecosystem and how physical/biological factors in an ecosystem can affect populations of organisms.
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Ecosystem Notes
Oh Deer Activity
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Topic: Physical/ Biological Factors in an Ecosystem
Objective: Students will participate in a kinesthetic activity to show how physical and biological factors can affect a population of deer. Afterwards, students will analyze, graph, and answer questions about the data they collected in the activity.
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Oh Deer Activity
Oh Deer Worksheet
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Topic: Biodiversity
Objective: Students will learn about biodiversity in ecosystems by taking notes, participating in discussion, and watching videos.
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Biodiversity Notes
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Topic: Biodiversity
Objective: Students will learn about biodiversity in ecosystems by taking notes, participating in discussion, and watching videos.
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Biodiversity Notes
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