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; MAFS.912.N-Q.1.1; LAFS.910.SL.1.1
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Students will be able to:
-Identify the different roles of organisms in any ecosystem.
-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- Students record all the observable things they can about the object given.
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: notebook update
AGENDA
WHOLE GROUP
Home learning was collected and reviewed.
Students worked as a team to complete the bell ringer. Each group was given an object and asked to write down the observations of the object they were given. Students were to write SOLEY based on what was observed, not what is known about the object. Teams then cooperated to write a CER about their observations.
Students then completed an ecological relationship activity, where they predicted what they thought the relationship was between the organisms, and then watched a short clip to identify the actual relationship, explaining their reasoning for choosing that particular symbiotic relationship. You can find the handout to accompany the clips below. All clips are from the PBS Nature series, and are the property of pbslearningmedia.org
Make a prediction for each pair of organisms as to what type of symbiotic relationship you think exists between the organisms. Then, watch the clip and write down the actual relationship in the last column. Be sure to include your reasoning and explanation of each actual relationship.
This is clip one. Use it to determine the relationship between the tiger shark and the loggerhead turtle.
This is clip 2. Use it to determine the relationships between:
shark and jack; shark and mackerel; shark and shark suckerfish; and shark and barberfish.
This is clip 3. Use it to determine the relationship between the shark and fishermen.
This is clip 4. Use it to determine the relationship between the shark and fishermen.
This is clip 5. Use it to determine the relationship between sharks and humans.
