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Students' Google Classroom will have lesson slides and resources
Students' Google Classroom will have lesson slides and resources
Unit 5.1 Ecosystems & Matter Cycling
Unit 5.1 Ecosystems & Matter Cycling
Students will start to figure out these things during this unit:
Planning and carrying out investigations related to what plants need to grow and how animals use their energy.
Exploring places where they see producers, consumers, and decomposers.
Reading about the plants, animals, and decomposers that live and grow on a nurse log and about the scientists who research them.
Developing models that explain how matter and energy move through an ecosystem.
Guiding Questions
Guiding Questions
What questions are you trying to answer right now about nurse logs?
What have you figured out about how plants get matter and energy to grow?
Can we find other examples of plants, animals, or decomposers?
How did you or the class share ideas in science today?
What new words have you been using to talk about what you are doing in science?
How has your thinking changed as you have figured things out?
Anchoring Phenomena:
How does a nurse log help other things live and grow?
How does matter and energy move through a food chain?
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