Students create a visual dictionary of unit vocabulary.
Les élèves créent une dictionnaire du vocabulaire de l'unité.
Students will compare the needs of animals and humans.
You could do this mealworm lab as well.
Students will create a Google Drawing that identifies adaptations of an animal. They will relate these adaptations to how the animal interactions within its environment.
Students will design an organism with adaptations that allow it to thrive in a particular habitat.
Students will create an infographic that delves into factors that impact ecological footprints.
Alberta has many species at risk. What can be done to prevent them from becoming extinct?
Students will identify intended and unintended consequences of human activities within local and global environments?
Students will create an infographic that discusses the impacts of different personal or public decisions.
Les élèves vont créer une infographique qui présent les impacts des décisions personelles et publiques.
Students will create hockey cards to identify whether organisms are producers, consumers or decomposers.
Les élèves vont créer des cartes de hockey pour identifier les producteurs, consommateurs et décomposeurs.
Analyze ecosystems to identify producers, consumers and decomposers and describe how energy is supplied to and flows through a food web.
Students can use this slideshow with icons to explain what they know through a screencast.
Students will create an infographic that delves into factors that impact ecological footprints.
Students will create a poster advertising an organism for biological control while indicating the positives and negatives of introducing a species to control another.
How Can We Help? Students will investigate the relationships that exist between living things and their environments. They will examine the flow of energy and the cycling of matter in ecosystems. In the end, they will use evidence that gathered from many sources to analyze a local environmental problem. Most of the resources used in this activity can be found on an outstanding web site called Real World Ecosystems @ greenlearning.ca.
Knowledge Outcomes: 1. Investigate and describe relationships between humans and their environments, and identify related issues and scientific questions 2. Trace and interpret the flow of energy and materials within an ecosystem 4. Describe the relationships among knowledge, decisions and actions in maintaining life-supporting environments
This interesting simulator shows land use changes over time. Check it out!
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society A large selections of lesson plans connecting wildlife and habitat in PDF files.
River Watch Alberta RiverWatch helps science classes to explore a 10-km section of their local river during a raft float trip. Along the way, students make shoreline stops to conduct water chemistry and biology tests.
The Good, the Bad, and the Buggy Use the Agriculture and Rural Development site to gather information on an insect or plant pest that is being controlled using biological methods.
Species At Risk The Canadian Wildlife Service has and extensive web site describing the plants and animals in Canada that face extirpation or extinction due to human activities or environmental changes.
FrogWatch The FrogWatch web site contains pictures and sounds of frogs native to Alberta. There are links to activities and other NatureWatch web sites.
Spirit of Alberta Information on amphibian species found in Alberta.
iNaturalist record what you see in nature and learn about the natural world
Water Watch The goal of Water Watch is to engage students, teachers and community members around Alberta in an investigation of the sources, uses and conservation options for Alberta's water resources.
Home Sweet Home The goal of Home Sweet Home is for Alberta students to make a collective and personal commitment in working towards an Alberta future where environmental sustainability is addressed, and to celebrate their collective commitment to making a difference
2Learn.ca Unit A science interactive links.