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Unit Guide - Ecology and Interactions
Unit Question - What are the negative impacts and positive solutions that humans have within ecosystems?
Lesson 1 - Food Chains - Owl Pellets - Jan 30
Add - Roly Poly Experiment - See Taxonomy lesson below and use this to talk about interactions, behavior, niche, decomposers, etc.
Buy Spinach for Lesson 6
Lesson 2 - Start the Competition Experiment - Jan 31
Lesson 3 - What are ecosystems? - Feb 1
Lesson 4 - Food Chains and Populations - computer model - Feb 2
Lesson 5 - Energy Flow in an Ecosystem - Feb 3
Lesson 6 - Carbon Cycle and Photosynthesis (with Spinach - 2 days) - Feb 6, 7
Lesson 7 - Make a Food Web - Feb 8
Lesson 8 - Measuring Populations in an Ecosystem (Day 1 - Day 2 later) - (Run in Disease Unit in Spring)
Lesson 10 - Chemical impacts in an ecosystem. Eutrophication - Feb 9 - Could probably delete this for more time on animals or wolves.
Lesson 9 - Taxonomy and lab conclusion (Day 2) - Feb 10 (Check with Brenna about the Taxonomy Cards - possibly more inquiry based)
Add - Approaches to Learning Check In
Look at your ATL Skill choice on the Unit Guide - Ecology and Interactions
Thumbs up or down with how it is going.
Share with your group how you are doing with your goal.
Lesson 11 - Preserving Nature Locally - Feb 13
Lesson 12 - CO Wolf Project - Biodiversity - Feb 14, 15 (modify to 1 day for ELD section - 2 days for other Bio)
Lesson 13 - Unit Test and Notebook Check - Feb 15
Ecology Part 2 - Human Impacts on Nature (3 sub lessons if needed)
Lesson 13 - Land Use Adaptations and Solutions - Sub Lesson Video Wild Ways -
Lesson 14 - Humans and Climate Change - Sub Lesson - Sep 26 (2 days for ELD Bio - 1 day otherwise)
Lesson 15 - Humans Balancing Use of Nature - Sub Lesson
Been absent? - Make up lab design work from a missed experiment.
Extra Lesson
Lesson 16 - Pathway Challenge Experiment - Keeping cool -
Reflection - It is the end of the semester. Take some time to write a message to yourself. Write a few sentences about each topic.
Explain something that is going well for you in this class this semester.
Tell yourself at least one thing that you will improve this semester (focus, work completion, getting to class, etc.). How will you do that?
Give yourself one piece of advice on how to overcome a challenge when that thing becomes difficult. Why will that work for you?
Reflection Lesson - Applying Engineering and biology solutions - Dec 14
Extra - sub lesson if needed
Planet Earth - Analyze an Ecosystem - Living and Non-living. Highlight species interactions. Temp, rainfall, etc.
Plastic Paradise - Pollutions impacts on living things. Video - Plastic Paradise - You will watch a video called Plastic Paradise - I want you to watch for how this narrator takes a personal issue and dives deeper into her understanding of the problem?
Student Video Guide - Nature: The Sagebrush Sea (DVD 598 Sag) (print) - How are humans impacting our local mountain regions? What are possible solutions to these human caused problems?
Colorado Science Standard
Life Sci -
3. Organisms use matter and energy to live and grow. (Photosynthesis)
4. Organisms interact with the living and nonliving components of the environment to obtain matter and energy.
5. Matter and energy necessary for life are conserved as they move through ecosystems.
6. A complex set of interactions determine how ecosystems respond to disturbances.