standards

• 6.4.1 Analyze data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations in an ecosystem. Ask questions to predict how changes in resource availability affects organisms in those ecosystems.

• 6.4.2 Construct an explanation that predicts patterns of interactions among organisms across multiple ecosystems. Emphasize consistent interactions in different environments, such as competition, predation, and mutualism.

• 6.4.3 Develop a model to describe the cycling of matter and flow of energy among living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem. Emphasize food webs and the role of producers, consumers, and decomposers in various ecosystems.

• 6.4.4 Construct an argument supported by evidence that the stability of populations is affected by changes to an ecosystem. Emphasize how changes to living and nonliving components in an ecosystem affect populations in that ecosystem

• 6.4.5 Evaluate solution for preserving ecosystem services that protect resource and biodiversity based on how well the solution maintains stability within the ecosystem.

assignments

web-links

• Duckster Biomes

• Kids and Ecology

• Monterey Bay Eco scenario Information

• Monongahela National Forest Eco scenario information

• Everglades National Park Eco scenario information

• Delaware National Recreation Area Eco scenario information

• Arctic Eco scenario information

• Tall grass Prairies Eco scenario information

• Ecology Corner

• Youtube Abiotic Factors in Ecosystems

• Youtube Loss of Biodiversity

• News ELA biotic and abiotic affects on plants

• Pictures of Ecosystems/ national geographic

• Natural History Museum: Uinta Investigation

• Youtube video of Uintas

• Climate Change Investigation

• Greenhouse Effect Investigation NOAA

• SAGE Grouse Background Information

• Biome Engineering Design Project

• Biomes with data and information: Nasa Earth Observatory