Monday, October 12, 2015

Monday/Tuesday, 12/13 October, 2015

ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How is energy moved through the biosphere?

RELEVANCE: Which gives me more energy, eating the burger or the lettuce on it?

NGSSS: SC.912.E.7.1; SC.912.L.17.9; SC.912.L.18.12; MAFS.912.N-Q.1.1; LAFS.910.SL.1.1

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Students will be able to:
-explain and illustrate the roles of all relationships among producers, consumers, and decomposers in the process of energy transfer in a food web.

-trace the energy pathways through the different tropic levels of a food web or energy pyramid.

BELL RINGER: Complete the cloze activity. You will find it below.
This is your bell ringer. Complete and add to your notebook.


VOCABULARY: autotroph, carnivore, chemosynthesis, consumer, decomposer, detritivore, scavenger, omnivore

HOME LEARNING: Update notebook for notebook check.

AGENDA
WHOLE GROUP

Students completed the bell ringer.


We collected and reviewed HL7.

Students then watched the BrainPop videos Food Chains and Energy Pyramids and completed the handouts below as they viewed the videos. You can find the handouts below. The videos can be viewed by signing in to BrainPop wit the user name and password palmbeach. Then, search for and view the videos Food Chains and Energy Pyramids. Complete the handouts below as you watch the videos.


Complete these handouts as you watch the BrainPop videos.


We discussed the different trophic levels in food chains and webs. Students then completed a quiz on the information learned in class today.