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Plants and animals demonstrate interdependence when insects pollinate the flowers on plants.
Use these resources to become an expert in Animal and Plant Interdependence. You can also access resources by searching Google or visiting the library. Watch and listen carefully. Take notes. You will have all the information you need to write your informational essay with diagrams. Don't forget: you are writing for an audience. Who will they be? What information do you need to teach them? What will they already know?
Key Vocabulary You Will Learn and Know!
Key Vocabulary You Will Learn and Know!
ecosystems, plant, animal, producer, consumer (primary, secondary, tertiary), decomposer, herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, adaptation, pollinate, species, organism, observe, interdependence, photosynthesis, energy pyramid, food chain, habitat
- TIP: Check out the activities connected with these words on BrainPop and BrainPop, Jr.!
Multimedia Resources
Multimedia Resources
Mr. Czarka's Plant and Animal Observation Videos
Mr. Czarka's Plant and Animal Observation Videos
- Watch and observe the video, "Observe Bees Pollinating Flowers":
- Think and take notes on how the bees and plants are interdependent. Take notes!
- Watch and observe the video, "Observe Menhaden, a Fish Species":
- Think and take notes on how the two different animal species demonstrate interdependence, Take notes.
Mr. Czarka's "Tide Pool Habitat" video.
Mr. Czarka's "Tide Pool Habitat" video.
- Watch and observe the video, "Tide pool Habitat":
- What evidence of plants, animals, and earth materials do you observe? How does this show how all three are related to each? Take notes.
BrainPop Videos
BrainPop Videos
(Do you remember your log in? Check your "Digital Learning Access" paper or have your parent send me a message with Remind!)
(Do you remember your log in? Check your "Digital Learning Access" paper or have your parent send me a message with Remind!)
You can search for these videos within the BrainPop app also. As you view the videos, think about the connections you can make between the information you learn from one video to the next video. Think: How does what I am learning right now connect to what I already know? Take notes (use the organizer below)! Don't forget to complete Make-a-Map, Word Play, the Quizzes (go for the hard one, eh?, games, and activities for each of the BrainPop videos! Produce your own content, and share with the world!
- Food Chains: Learn about producers, consumers, decomposers, and how they are connected through food chains in a big web...what?!!?
- Food Chain by Brain Pop Jr: Similar to the BrainPop video above but with new characters teaching you!
- Ecosystems: Learn about communities, populations, and habitats, as well as plant and animal adaptations.
- Six Kingdoms: Learn how all living things are classified, or organized, and the reasons for this organization.
- Photosynthesis: Learn about how plants make their own energy (food) to keep on living.
- Pollination: Learn how plants reproduce by pollination, and how animals, like bees and birds, are important for this process (and our survival too)!
- Energy Pyramid: Learn why there are fewer organisms at the top of the food pyramid. Hint: it has to do with energy (with always originates with the sun)!
- Food Fight: Play a game to learn about animal population growth.
Plant_Animal_PDF.pdfOther Video Clips
Other Video Clips
- What's a Food Chain?: In English and Espanol, learn "why all living things need food and explains how organisms provide energy, in the form of food, to each other."
- Food Chain Story: Listen to this student's Educreation story about how the vole and the golden eagle are connected to each other in their ecoystem. You can make an educreationtoo!
Myon
Myon
- Log into Myon. Search for books on "Plants" or "Animals" or other search terms focused on Plant and Animal Interdependence. Hint: Think about the Key Vocabulary above.
Games
Games
- Food Chain Game by BrainPop Jr.: Create a food chain by dragging the living things in order to show the transfer of energy 'up' the food chain.
- Animal Diet Game: Classify (or put into groups based on similar properties) the animals as herbivores, carnivores, or omnivores
Getting Ready to Write an Informational Book*
Getting Ready to Write an Informational Book*
Below is the "framework" good informational writers (like you!) use to develop their information writing. Follow these steps!
- Choose a topic.
- Plan for how each chapter or part will go.
- Plan for ways to take notes and jot ideas.
- Take notes, fitting what you learn into your plan.
- Plan for teaching others as a way to rehearse for writing.
- What do I want my audience to learn?
- What will interest my audience?
- What will confuse my audience?
- Draft!
Resources
Resources
CL_WP_IL_INFO_G4.pdfInformational Writing Check List (English)*
*This will help guide you in the writing process.
Spanish_Grade_4_Information_Checklist_Illus.pdfInformational Writing Check List (Espanol)*
*This will help guide you in the writing process.
Plant_Animal_PDF.pdfResearch Notes Graphic Organizer
RU_INFO_G4.pdfInformational Writing Rubric*
*This is how your writing will be graded!
Chapters_Organizer.pdfDeveloping Your Chapters (subtopics)
Writing Paper_Box_on_Top.pdfWriting Paper
*Materials from © 2014 by Lucy Calkins and Colleagues from the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project from Units of Study in Opinion, Information, and Narrative Writing (firsthand: Portsmouth, NH). Thank you TCRWP for inspiring my students to become confident writers.
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