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An inquiry into the natural world and its laws; the interaction between the natural world (physical and biological) and human societies; how humans use their understanding of scientific principles; the impact of scientific and technological advances on society and on the environment.
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Central Idea: interconnectedness shapes cycles.
Lines of Inquiry:
✦ Connections between components of an ecosystem
✦ Consequences of balance and imbalance
✦ Invasive species impact ecosystems (student-created line of inquiry)
Does Air Have Weight?
In the activity, Weighing Air, students blow up balloons and place them on both sides of a large balance scale constructed from a yardstick. Then, students let the air out of all the balloons on one side of the balance to directly observe that air has weight.
Do Worms Really Eat Dirt?
In this lesson, students discover the critical role earthworms play in decomposing dead material and releasing nutrients into the soil. During a two-part activity, Ask a Worm, students observe earthworms and then design their own “fair test” investigations of earthworm behavior. Students first make close observations of worms. Then, students conduct a simple experiment with multiple trials to figure out if worms prefer dry or wet areas. They consider what a “fair test” is and design an experiment to answer other questions about worms.
The Walking Classroom
Eat, Or Be Eaten Card Game
In this lesson, students develop their thinking about the predator/prey relationships between living things. In the activity, Eat or Be Eaten, students play a card game in which they make food chains with predators and prey, and producers and consumers. The students who make the longest food chains win the game!
Life Inside a Dome - Provocation Ecosystem Spaceship Earth.mp4Biosphere Challenge
Ecosystem & Organism Google Slideshow
Students chose an ecosystem/habitat and specific organism that they would like to research further and spent time inquiring into different plants, animals, and characteristics found in that ecosystem and studied their organism in more depth.
Oh-Deer.pdfBlue, green, yellow cards
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