Energy and Matter in Ecosystems Learning Plan
Cycles of Nature Learning Plan
Populations Affect Each Other Learning Plan
Adaptations, NS, and Evolution Learning Plan
How does the natural world around me work?
I can explain why photosynthesis is important to an ecosystem.
I can describe how matter and energy cycle in organisms and how humans disrupt these cycles.
food webs, energy pyramids
water, nitrogen, and carbon cycles
I can use data to explain and/or how resource availability affects populations
I can describe how living things affect each other. (aka relationships in nature)
I can describe and give examples of biodiversity.
I can design an experiment to explain how humans affect biodiversity via water pollution.
I can explain how humans impact biodiversity when we access and use natural resources in a WI forest.
I can describe how natural selection, adaptation, and the theory of evolution relate to each other.
(MS-LS 1-6) Explain the role of photosynthesis
(MS-LS1-7) Model how matter and energy move through organisms in photosynthesis and cellular respiration
(MS-LS2-1) Explain how resource availability affects populations
(MS-LS2-3) Model how matter and energy cycle through living and nonliving things in an ecosystem
(MS-LS2-4) Explain how changes in an ecosystem affect populations
(MS-LS2-2) Explain how organisms interact
(MS-LS2-5) Explain how to protect biodiversity
(MS-LS4-2) Infer evolutionary relationships from the similarities between organisms
(MS-LS4-3) Infer evolutionary relationships from similar embryonic development
(MS-LS4-4) Explain how genetic traits of individuals increase their likeliness of survival and reproduction
(MS-LS4-6) Explain how natural selection leads to increases and decreases in specific traits
(MS-ESS3-3) Examine how humans impact the environment
(MS-ESS3-4) Explain how increases in human population and our use of human resources impacts Earth's ecosystems