Priority Standard:
- 5.L.2 Understand the interdependence of plants and animals with their ecosystem
- 5.L.2.3 Infer the effects that may result from the interconnected relationship of plants and animals to their ecosystem.
- 5.L.2.1 Compare the characteristics of several common ecosystems, including estuaries and salt marshes, oceans, lakes and ponds, forests and grasslands.
Essential Questions/Big Ideas:
- Why don’t tigers live in the ocean?
- What happens if there is an abundance of species lower in the food web; And what happens if there is a shortage of species lower in the food web?
- If you were a travel agent, what would you put in a brochure to persuade clients to visit each biome?
- There are different types of ecosystems that are divided into two groups, terrestrial and aquatic, based on their characteristics.
- All of the organisms in an ecosystem have interconnected relationships.
- Organisms in an ecosystem can be producers, consumers, or decomposers.
Notes:
Resources:
Ecosystem Game: Biomes
http://kids.nceas.ucsb.edu/biomes/
https://www.ducksters.com/science/ecosystems/world_biomes.php
http://studyjams.scholastic.com/studyjams/jams/science/ecosystems/ecosystems.htm
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/games/foodchaingame.htm
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmsc/activities/simulations/gr4/unitb.html
http://kids.nceas.ucsb.edu/biomes/
https://www.ducksters.com/science/ecosystems/world_biomes.php
http://studyjams.scholastic.com/studyjams/jams/science/ecosystems/ecosystems.htm
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/games/foodchaingame.htm
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmsc/activities/simulations/gr4/unitb.html