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Inspirational Quote of the Day: " I don't like to give advice. I like to give people information because everyone's life is different, and everyone's journey is different." - Dolly Parton 

Objective: Students will learn about Ecology

Standards:

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.

• Organisms, and populations of organisms, are dependent on their environmental interactions both with other living things and with nonliving factors.

• In any ecosystem, organisms and populations with similar requirements for food, water, oxygen, or other resources may compete with each other for limited resources, access to which consequently constrains their growth and reproduction.

• Growth of organisms and population increases are limited by access to resources.

MS-LS2-4 Construct an argument supported by empirical evidence that changes to physical or biological components of an ecosystem affect populations

• Ecosystems are dynamic in nature; their characteristics can vary over time. Disruption to any physical or biological component of an ecosystem can lead to shifts in all its populations.

MS-LS2-2 Construct an explanation that predicts patterns of interactions among organisms across multiple ecosystems.

• Similarly, predatory interactions may reduce the number of organisms or eliminate whole populations of organisms. Mutually beneficial interactions, in contrast, may become so interdependent that each organism requires the other for survival. Although the species involved in these competitive, predatory, and mutually beneficial interactions vary across ecosystems, the patterns of interactions of organisms with their environments, both living and nonliving, are shared.

MS-LS2-5 Evaluate competing design solutions for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services

• Biodiversity describes the variety of species found in Earth’s terrestrial and oceanic ecosystems. The completeness or integrity of an ecosystem’s biodiversity is often used as a measure of its health.

• Changes in biodiversity can influence human resources, such as food, energy and medicines, as well as ecosystem services that humans rely on- for example, water purification and recycling.

• There are systematic processes for evaluating solutions with respect to how well they meet the criteria and constraints of a problem.

Warm-Up: 

Vocab Escape Room Race Starting Line

Take 5 Warm-up

To Do List:

1. Practice Questions

2. Forest Ecosystem Gizmo- Mushrooms

Check for Understanding:

Norm Focused Reflection 

Sponge Time

Homework:

Ecology Quiz- Friday May 24

Study Sites

https://play.blooket.com/play?hwId=664a33ddfcb8091a1dfefb23

https://quizlet.com/91

7288189/ecosystem-interactions-overview-flash-cards/?i=fcc2&x=1jqt

https://kahoot.it/challenge/02549028?challenge-id=f1709fd2-7c4d-451e-bde5-ae3b37318248_1716139958386

https://www.gimkit.com/join/664a3916ce9cc3739b507821