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Biosphere
Biosphere
Useful resources
Useful resources
- Vocabulary
- "Medicine Man" (Los últimos días del Edén)
Sesiones
Sesiones
- Introduction
- Analyse and organise
- Food chains and food webs
- Loss of biodiversity
- Climate change
Introduction
Introduction
- Macmillan Audio 20
- ¿Qué es la biosfera?: videoexplicación youtube
- A big ball of life: website Geography4Kids
- Introduction to Ecology: video youtube
- Why did mammoths go extinct? Videoexplanation youtube
- La trágica historia del pájaro dodo: video youtube
- Lista de animales extintos: website diez minutos
- Por qué las aves vuelan en formación de v: video youtube
- Simbiosis entre el pez payaso y la anémona: video youtube
Analyse and organise
Analyse and organise
- Relationships between organisms: website Biology4kids
Relationships between organisms of the same species
- Cooperation
- Family groups
- Hierachical communities
- Gregarious species
- Competition
Relationships between organisms of different species: Macmillan Audio 21
- Examples of mutualism: video youtube
- Examples of comensalism: video youtube
- Examples of symbiotic relationships: mutualism, comensalism and parasitism video youtube
- Difference between predation and parasitism: video youtube
- Los parásitos en el cuerpo humano: documental youtube
- Mutualism: Macmillan Audio 22
Food chains and food webs
Food chains and food webs
Producers
Consumers
- Primary comsumers
- Secondary consumers
- Tertiary consumers
Decomposers
Useful resources:
- Macmillan Audio 23
- Understanding an ecosystem: video youtube
- Food chains for kids: video youtube
- Food chains: website ducksters
- Food webs: video youtube video turtleDiary
Loss of biodiversity
Loss of biodiversity
Causes and effects
- Climate change
- Pollution
- Hunting and capturing animals
- Overexploiting resources
- Releasing pets into the wild
- Alteration of habitats
Protectiong biodiversity
- Endangered species
- National Parks
- Monfragüe National Park
- Doñana National Part
- Biosphere reserves
Useful resources:
- Macmillan Audio 24
- Why is biodiversity so important?: video TED-ED
- Human impacts on biodiversity?: video fuseSchool
- Endangered animals: video SciShow
- Deforestation effects on climate: video youtube
- Ecocidio en Indonesia: documentary RTVE
- Al menos 17 muertos y 100 casas destruidas por una riada en el sur de California (11-01-2018): website News El País
- Parque Nacional de Monfragüe_ documental RTVE website vivirmonfragüe
- How we can protect biodiversity (four ways): website wikihow
Students' priceless contribution:
- The national park of Monfragüe by Gonzalo
- The Iberian lynx by Guillermo
- The giant panda by Elena
- The Iberian lynx by Samuel
- The Iberian lynx by Jairo
- The Iberian lynx by Esther
- The bioshere by Miriam
- The golden toad and the poisonous dart frog by Sara
- Extintion by Alex
- The Iberian lynx by Lucía D
- Other contributions in pdf: Lucía B, Paula C, Manuel, Nera Q, Isis.
- Other contributions in pdf: Judith, Shaila, Miriam.
Objectives
Objectives
- Observe the enormity of biodiversity.
- Understand that the Earth is an ecosystem which contains all other ecosystems.
- Discover that all organisms are interconnected.
- Identify the main relationships between living things.
- Interpret food chains and food webs and design their models.
- Enjoy the challenge of connecting the organisms in order to produce a sustainable system.
- Recognise how human activities modify the environment.
- Develop an awareness of human responsibility towards the Earth and the living things which share the planet.
- Learn that extinction has occurred for millions of years but they will realise that humans are responsible for most of the recent loss of biodiversity
- Be interested in, if not passionate about, protecting biodiversity.
- Investigate more. There is a wealth of information available and students should be encouraged to find out more by themselves.
- Conduct an experiment to create a living ecosystem following the steps of scientific method.
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