Resources
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.
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Level 4
- Ask questions and gather and analyze data to predict what caused a population to change over time.
- Ask questions and make predictions about how changes in the availability of resources will affect organisms and populations in an ecosystem.
- Level 3
- Analyze data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations in an ecosystem.
- Ask question to predict how changes in resource availability affects organisms in those ecosystems.
- Level 2
- Identify patterns in data to describe how a population changes over time.
- Identify patterns in data to describe how resource availability changes over time.
- Name resources that organisms need to survive in an ecosystem.
6.4.2 & 6.4.3 Wolves in Yellowstone and lions in African savanna resources
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.
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Level 4
- Predict how interactions (competition, predation, mutualism, parasitism, and commensalism) between organisms change as a result of changes in resource availability in an ecosystem.
- Analyze data to explain the interactions among organisms in ecosystems.
Level 3
- Predict interactions between organisms in an ecosystem based on patterns of interactions in different ecosystems.
- Explain that there are reliable patterns of interactions between organisms in an ecosystem and that those patterns exist across various ecosystems.
Level 2
- Explain that organisms interact with other organisms in their ecosystem.
- Define and provide examples of predation, competition 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.
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Level 4
- Develop a model and use it to explain factors that change the amount of available energy in a food web.
- Use a model to predict how changing the energy inputs will affect the living and nonliving parts of the ecosystem.
Level 3
- Develop a model and use it to explain the cycling of matter and flow of energy through an ecosystem.
- Use the model to explain how matter and energy is transferred between producers, consumers, decomposers and nonliving components (water, minerals, air) of an ecosystem Level 2
- Describe the feeding relationships in a given food web.
- Explain the role of energy from the sun in a food web.
- Define producer, consumer and decomposer.
- Identify the producers, consumers, and decomposers in a given food web.
Resources for researching the role/impact wolves play and have on an environment as predators:
6.4.4 Stability and Changes in an Ecosystem...how do invasive species affect an ecosystem?
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.
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Level 4
- Ask questions and investigate how changes in a specific ecosystem have affected the stability of that ecosystem over time.
- Make a claim supported by evidence about how changes in populations in one ecosystem changes the stability of another ecosystem.
Level 3
- Construct an argument using evidence to support a claim that changes to living or nonliving components in an ecosystem will affect the stability of populations in that ecosystem.
Argumentative Writing Rubric
W1:Argumentative Writing.pdf
