Unit Question - How do changes in a system impact other parts of the system?
Language Skill - Identify the different parts of a system.
LESSON TO ADD - Spheres of the Earth - air, water, soil, life
Lesson 1 - Where are you from? - Mar 7
Lesson 2 - Producers and Consumers - Mar 10
Lesson 3 - Biome Presentation - Mar 11
Lesson 4 - Food Chains - Mar 12
Lesson 5 - Food Webs (2 days) - Mar 13 and 14
Lesson 6 - Species Interactions and Food Web Review - Mar 24
Lesson 7 - Planet Earth - Biome Video - ACCESS Testing Classes - Mar 25
Lesson 8 - Water Cycle - Mar 26
Lesson 9 - Test Review - Mar 27
Unit Test - Mar 28
After Test - Animal Adaptations (follow up to Planet Earth video)
NEED Goldfish for next unit.
Adaptations Lessons
Write - Biome Vocabulary
Practice - 1. Read and match 1, 2, 3.
Write - Make a list of animals and say how they are adapted to their environment.
Explain - pick an animal for your biome. Add to your powerpoint how it is adapted to your home environment. Use Blue Planet Biome
Lesson 9 - Water on Earth (possibly a Google Classroom Lesson - as students can use translate for 1 reading)
Purpose - Comment on how water influences human actions/decisions.
Review - Parts of the water cycle.
Read - Water and La Paz, Bolivia (independent)
Discuss - Say what the article is about. (with whole class)
Write - Answer questions about the article. (with a partner)
Lesson 10 - Climate of your Biome
Purpose - Create a climate chart for a local biome.
Create - Climate Chart - Example Fort Collins
Analyze - reading climate charts (print 1/2 pages and collect)
Add - Put a climate chart on your poster for a big city in your biome
Example - Wisconsin...I would want to visit in ________ because _____________.
Explain - When you would want to visit your location based on climate?
What is most important when visiting? Wet or dry? Hot or cold?
ACCESS Testing Week
Lesson Extra Time - Adaptations
Purpose - Highlight features of different biomes from around the world.
Part 1 - Adaptation
Write - Biome Vocabulary
Practice - 1. Click on the rabbit. 2. Adaptations matching with summary.
Write - Make a list of animals and say how they are adapted to their environment.
Explain - pick an animal for your biome. Add to your poster how it is adapted to your home environment.
Part 2 - Planet Earth - Video
Outline - Have students create this concept map in their notebook.
Select - Pick either the Mountains or Grasslands video to watch (Planet Earth DVD from the library)
Play this video for students. Turn on the captions. Pause to fill in the concept map.
Part 3 - Design an animal
Pick any biome
Design an animal that would live in that biome - Example
Label the parts of your animal.
Say why each part is a good adaptation. (based on this lesson)
Lesson 11 - Biome Overview
Purpose -
Share Posters
Give feedback? - use this checklist to give feedback to 2 people (below you on the chart)
Use feedback to make an quick poster improvements
Lesson x - Producers
Purpose: Name the different parts of a plant and explain the process of photosynthesis.
Write - Plant Vocabulary
Start beans early - Explain - why I soaked the beans in the dark.
Diagram - Fill in the blank of plant parts (draw in your notebook)
Activity - Start a plant experiment.
Read - What is photosynthesis?
Record - Make a data table to record observations in each class.