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💡Big Idea:
How does carbon cycle through living and nonliving things?
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How do matter and energy cycle through systems?
✏️Note: Today, we'll do a portion of the Middle School version of this lesson plan. Lesson plans, handouts, and slideshows for all three grade-level groups are at the bottom of this webpage.
Desert Slideshow.mp4Drylands Slideshow (Reynolds Creek, Idaho)
📝Biosphere Breathes-
Elementary
TEKS 2017 Connections:
4.8(C) analyze data to identify sequences and predict patterns of change in seasons
5.8(A) differentiate between weather and climate
⭐TEKS 2021 Connections:
4.9(A) collect and analyze data to identify sequences and predict patterns of change in seasons such as change in temperature and length of daylight
4.10(C) differentiate between weather and climate
5.5(E) investigate how energy flows and matter cycles through systems and how matter is conserved
NGSS Connections:
DCI ESS2.A: Earth’s major systems are the geosphere, the hydrosphere, the atmosphere, and the biosphere.
📝Biosphere Breathes Elementary Resources
📖Biosphere Breathes-
Middle
TEKS 2017 Connections:
6.12(E) describe biotic and abiotic parts of an ecosystem in which organisms interact
7.5(B) diagram the flow of energy through living systems, including food chains, food webs, and energy pyramids
⭐TEKS 2021 Connections:
6.12(A) investigate how organisms and populations in an ecosystem depend on and may compete for biotic factors such as food and abiotic factors such as availability of light and water, range of temperatures, or soil composition
6.5(E) analyze and explain how energy flows and matter cycles through systems and how energy and matter are conserved through a variety of systems
7.12(B) describe how ecosystems are sustained by the continuous flow of energy and the recycling of matter and nutrients within the biosphere
NGSS Connections:
DCI LS2.B: Transfers of matter into and out of the physical environment occur at every level. The atoms that make up the organisms in an ecosystem are cycled repeatedly between the living and nonliving parts of the ecosystem.
📖Biosphere Breathes Middle School Resources
📚Biosphere Breathes-
High School
TEKS 2017 Connections:
B.12(D) describe the flow of matter through the carbon and nitrogen cycles and explain the consequences of disrupting these cycles
⭐TEKS 2021 Connections:
B.13(C) explain the significance of the carbon and nitrogen cycles to ecosystem stability and analyze the consequences of disrupting these cycles
NGSS Connections:
DCI LS2.B: Photosynthesis and cellular respiration are important components of the carbon cycle, in which carbon is exchanged among the biosphere, atmosphere, oceans, and geosphere through chemical, physical, geological, and biological processes.
📚Biosphere Breathes- High School Resources
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