ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How do interactions among organisms impact the changing environment?
RELEVANCE: How do our daily activities affect the environment?
NGSSS: SC.912.L.17.5
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Students will be able to:
-Identify the different roles of organisms in any ecosystem.
-Explain that different types of organisms exist within aquatic systems due to chemistry, geography, light, depth, salinity, and/or temperature.
-Investigate the chemical factors (pH, oxygen, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, phosphorous, and salinity) in aquatic systems.
-Explain how succession changes ecosystems over time.
-Recognize the potential changes to an ecosystem resulting from seasonal variations, climate changes, and/or succession.
BELL RINGER- Look at the Everglades Food Web and answer the following:
-What might happen if a specific plant or animal was removed from the food web.
-Which organisms would be affected the most?
-Do you think that ecosystem would be able to find a balance?
-What would happen if you introduced an exotic species, let’s say a tegu lizard or a Mayan cichlid fish?
Here is the food web:
Here is the food web:
Use this web to answer the questions.
Watch the video and re-evaluate your answers.
The handout for this activity can be found below:
Use this form to complete as you review the handout on the everglades Food Web. Only complete the Answer (middle) section.
Now, watch the video, found at the link The Food Web and rethink your answers to the questions, writing them in the last column.
VOCABULARY: commensalism, ecosystem, global warming, greenhouse effect, invasive species, mutualism, parasitism, predation, primary succession, secondary succession, succession, symbiosis, abiotic, biome, biotic, biodiversity, climate, producer, consumer, decomposer, aquatic
HOME LEARNING: update notebook/study for vocabulary
AGENDA
WHOLE GROUP
We reviewed home learning 2.
We completed handouts from the past week's lesson for those classes where it was necessary. All handouts (completed) should be in your interactive notebook. See me if you are not sure how to do this. We also completed the questions, summary, and placed all handouts into the interactive notebook.
We began the bell ringer activity from the Odyssey Earth website (see above).
Students were given the vocabulary handouts and it was explained how to complete them. Students are to study this, as there WILL be a quiz on this information next class meeting! You can find the vocabulary handouts below.
These are the vocabulary word you need to be familiar with by next class meeting Also, be sure you complete the last column of the handouts.
