BIOLOGY 1L

Topic 2: Benefits & Challenges of Living in Communities

Learning Goals:

• 1. Summarize the benefits of organisms living together

  2. Identify challenges that arise due to living together in communities

  3. Make observations to determine benefits and challenges of living in communities

  4. Compare the strategies used by various communities of organisms to successfully coexist

  5. Determine and explain how humans organize their communities to address challenges of living together

Activities

- Rabbit Populations (GIZMO)

- Case Study: Turkeys & Wolves

- Human Organization

- Life in the Hive & Job Poster

- Jane Goodall TedTalk

- Ecosystem Case Studies Project (Sample Research)

Topic 3: Ecological Relationships

Learning Goals:

• 1. Use research to determine the roles of specific organisms within a community

  2. Plan and conduct an experiment to investigate the results of over-crowding in macroscopic populations

  3. Develop a simple action plan to address an environmental concern

Activities

- Ecological Relationship Stories

​- Ecological Relationships in the Wild

- Sorting Relationships

- Deer Me! Simulation

- Creating Food Webs

- TedEd: Dead Stuff

- Popcorn Energy Levels

- Pesticides & Bioaccumulation

- Contamination Articles -

Topic 1: Ecology Vocabulary

Learning Goals:

• 1. Use appropriate scientific terminology related to concepts of organisms living together (e.g., species, population, community, colony, biodiversity…)

Activities

- Nature Walk

​- Vocabulary Poster

- Cross-Word Puzzle Assignment

- Meerkat Manor Vocabulary Activity

- Abiotic & Biotic Factors

- Interactions Between Abiotic & Biotic Factors

- Bill Nye Populations