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Unit 5: Ecosystem Population Dynamics
Unit 5: Ecosystem Population Dynamics
Performance Expectations:
Performance Expectations:
MS-LS2-1: Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem.
MS-LS2-2: Construct an explanation that predicts patterns of interactions among organisms across multiple ecosystems.
MS-LS2-4: Construct an argument supported by empirical evidence that changes to physical or biological components of an ecosystem affect populations.
Essential Questions:
Essential Questions:
How does an ecosystem provide resources to provide for and maintain healthy populations?
How do changes to physical or biological components of an ecosystem affect populations?
Concepts & Skills:
Concepts & Skills:
The students will know...
The levels of organization of living things within an ecosystem.
The difference between abiotic and biotic factors of an ecosystem.
How limiting factors and carrying capacity affect population sizes.
Which abiotic and biotic factors increase or decrease a population size.
How to analyze and interpret population data and recognize patterns.
Relationships between species are essential for survival.
Symbiotic relationships.
Assessments:
Assessments:
Notebook Entries
Quizzes
CER (Claim, Evidence, & Reasoning)
Resources:
Resources:
FOSS Populations & Ecosystems NGSS Kit/Materials and textbook
Fusion: Ecology in the Environment textbook
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