Unit 2: Ecosystems: The Flow of Matter and Energy Through Ecosystems and The Principles of Ecology, Chapters 2 and 9
Essential Questions of the Unit: (Test Essay Questions)
Resources: Unit Plan Google Doc Scafold, (Begin By Opening This Document and Following the Instructions to Make Your Copy), Chapter 2 & Chapter 9 of your Textbook
- How do energy transformations from the sun to organisms provide energy for all life forms to exist?
- How does matter cycling through the environment provide the materials necessary for life?
- How are matter and energy conserved within ecosystems?
Resources: Unit Plan Google Doc Scafold, (Begin By Opening This Document and Following the Instructions to Make Your Copy), Chapter 2 & Chapter 9 of your Textbook
Ecosystems
www.mindfully.org
Unit Learning Targets: Follow links for help with these targets.
- LT 1: I can differentiate and give examples of abiotic and biotic components of an ecosystem.
- LT 2: I can identify how energy is stored in ecosystems (in what types of molecules)
- LT 3: I can describe how energy is transferred through ecosystems and account for energy lost as heat (how much past on from one trophic level to the next)
- LT 4: I can explain how energy flows through ecosystems and predict changes to food webs when organisms are removed
- LT 5 : I can use a food web to identify and distinguish producers, consumers, and decomposers and explain how energy flows through trophic levels.
- LT 6: I can define and describe symbiosis and its variations.
- LT 7: I can describe the common environmental processes of the carbon and nitrogen cycle and explain their role in the processing of matter crucial to life. (a more in depth look at the nitrogen cycle) (a more in depth look at the carbon cycle)
- LT8: I can describe and explain the phenomenon of biological magnification and the role that point source and non-point sources of pollution play in the process.
Monday, January 4____________
EQ = How does matter cycling through the environment provide the materials necessary for life?
LT 's
Agenda:
EQ = How does matter cycling through the environment provide the materials necessary for life?
LT 's
- I can differentiate and give examples of abiotic and biotic components of an ecosystem.
- I can identify how energy is stored in ecosystems (in what types of molecules)
- I can describe how energy is transferred through ecosystems and account for energy lost as heat (how much past on from one trophic level to the next)
- I can explain how energy flows through ecosystems and predict changes to food webs when organisms are removed
Agenda:
- Learning Hub Group Assignments - See Agenda in Schoology - Lets talk about what works and what doesn't work.
- Introduction to my website and our next agenda.
- Introduction to the unit plan. Make your copy in Schoology and attempt #1 - write your responses in your new document (Unit Plan)
- Follow along with the presentation on Energy Flow in The Biosphere - found in the link for #2. (Video Version if absent or in Hub or at home)
- When we finish today, use chapter 2 and information from the presentation to address LT 2.
- Anything highlighted in orange is a link to help you understand that learning target.
Wednesday, January 6 & Thursday, January 7__________
EQ = How do energy transformations from the sun to organisms provide energy for all life forms to exist?
LT = 2. I can identify how energy is stored in ecosystems (in what types of molecules)
3. I can describe how energy is transferred through ecosystems and account for energy lost as heat (how much past on from
one trophic level to the next)
4. I can explain how energy flows through ecosystems and predict changes to food webs when organisms are removed
Agenda:
Friday, January 8_____________________________
EQ = How do energy transformations from the sun to organisms provide energy for all life forms to exist?
LT = 2. I can identify how energy is stored in ecosystems (in what types of molecules)
3. I can describe how energy is transferred through ecosystems and account for energy lost as heat (how much past on from
one trophic level to the next)
4. I can explain how energy flows through ecosystems and predict changes to food webs when organisms are removed
Agenda:
- Energy and Biomass Pyramids demonstration and group activity.
- When completed have it checked by me. Once approved, take a photo and enter it into your LT scaffold for LT#3.p (Watershed Macroinvertebrate ID Cards: Period 1 & Period 3, or Period 2 )
Friday, January 8_____________________________
- To Address LT#4 we will work together with the reading provided in the class handout - Energy Flow in the Biosphere Cartoon.
- Do the reading and complete the accompanying questions sheet. (If you are absent, complete the questions in your notebooks)
- For the last question, where you are asked to predict changes to the food web Visit this page for a brief overview of the role of krill in the antarctic food web. When you answer the question at the end of the reading regarding the krill in the Antarctic food web, do so in your Unit 2 Learning Target Document LT#4. If you choose to diagram this response, insert a photo of your work into the LT document. Include in your prediction evidence of your understandings by use of at least half of the terminology explained in previous learning targets such as:
- heterotrophs
- autotrophs
- first order, second order, third order consumers (more if needed)
- why food chains are limited in length to generally short (4-5 link) food chains
- decomposers
- where (in what molecules) energy is being stored
- how energy is entering the biosphere, and how it moving through the organisms within the biosphere
Tuesday January 12 LT 5 : I can use a food web to identify and distinguish producers, consumers, and decomposers and explain how energy flows through trophic levels. Are all animals as equal as one another in a food web?
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Wednesday, January 13 - All Freshman will be registering for next years classes. You will report to the Gym after attendance. You will need to bring your fully charged chromebook or device with you.
Thursday, January 14 & Friday, January 15
EQ = How does matter cycling through the environment provide the materials necessary for life? Today we will be discussing LT 5 : I can use a food web to identify and distinguish producers, consumers, and decomposers and explain how energy flows through trophic levels. Agenda:
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An example of what a finished product will look like.
Requirements For your Food Web:
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Monday, January 18 & Tuesday, January 19_____
LT 6: I can define and describe symbiosis and its variations.
Do all of the following under LT 6 in your Ecosystems Unit Scaffold.
Agenda:
LT 6: I can define and describe symbiosis and its variations.
Do all of the following under LT 6 in your Ecosystems Unit Scaffold.
Agenda:
- Food Web Pair and Share.
- Dissect the word. What does sym-bio-sis literally mean?
- An Introduction to Symbiosis and how it shapes communities.
- Open the Symbiosis Assignment and complete it over the next 2 days. This Symbiosis Presentation will be helpful in getting you started.
- Pick a symbiotic relationship from the provided list and complete the Symbiosis Assignment
- A finished product will be needed by Wednesday.
- On Wednesday - Present and share with one another the types of symbiosis you researched. You will need to submit a link to your document in Schoology for presentation purposes - look for the Symbiosis assignment in Schoology to do so. While listening to one another, record information and examples in LT 6 on your unit LT scaffold things that will help you remember the differences between the various types of symbiosis.
- Expect a short quiz covering Symbiosis on Wednesday
Thursday, January 21 - Tuesday, January 26th________
EQ = How does matter cycling through the environment provide the materials necessary for life? Agenda: For the next few days, we will be discussing the idea of nutrient cycles for LT 7: I can describe the common environmental processes of the carbon and nitrogen cycle and explain their role in the processing of matter crucial to life. (a more in depth look at the nitrogen cycle) (a more in depth look at the carbon cycle)
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Tuesday, January 26_________________________
LT4: I can explain how energy flows through ecosystems and predict changes to food webs when organisms are removed
Agenda:
- Watch the 3 provided videos for help on the Nitrogen Cycle .
- Nutrient Cycles Foldable's - Time to finish - See what you can add after yesterday's lecture and the videos.
- Add all required information to your LT1-7 documents - They are due Tomorrow.
- Quiz For LT 1-7 will be Thursday
- So, Today you need to A) complete the foldable (post a picture in your learning targets document) and B) complete the Learning Targets Document and submit it into Schoology
- If, and when you finish, begin the Data Nugget - Fair Traders or Freeloaders. This is due Thursday.
Monday, February 1 and Tuesday, February 2 _________________________
Biomagnification
what is the pattern you see?
EQ = How does the cycling of mater and energy through an ecosystem play a role in the process of biomagnification?
Agenda: (Following Your Test)
- LT8: I can describe and explain the phenomenon of biological magnification and the role that point source and non-point sources of pollution play in the process.
Agenda: (Following Your Test)
- Learning Target 1-7 Test is Wednesday
- Open the biomagnification assignment and make a copy for yourself.
- Follow the instructions for number 1 - creating a diagram of how you believe pollutants flow through food webs.
- Group sharing
- Continue with your assignment as the directions indicate
- Off what concern is this situation to you or anyone living in Allegan County? Select the Allegan county link and Read through this guide (specifically pg. 18 - 20) and describe some conclusions on why this should or should not be a concern of yours?
Jazz meets education of Biomagnification (yeah baby!). Watch the video below - Why do predatory birds have to worry about herbicide and pesticide use designed to kill weeds and small insects?
TBD_________________________
- LT8: I can describe and explain the phenomenon of biological magnification and the role that point source and non-point sources of pollution play in the process.
Agenda:
- Open your Biomagnification Documents (these should be submitted into Schoology as a PDF by now)
- In your assigned small group, take turns sharing your final drawings/diagrams. Then, as a group create one group diagram to represent all that you have learned regarding this topic. Include the new vocabulary we have learned and the concept description along with your diagram. (on a white board)
- Gallery walk
- With any time that we have left, you need to spend working on your watershed project. This might mean graphs, tables, charts, maps, or even getting into the Discussion section.
TBD.....
- A new Problem? Listen the Michigan NPR story " An Industrial Chemical Finds its Way Into Great Lakes Trout" . Should you be concerned knowing what you should now know regarding biomagnification and bioaccumulation?
TBD
Watershed Project Data Analysis Day
Watershed Project Data Analysis Day
- Open and make a copy of Watershed Project Data Analysis document. Follow the instructions and complete a data analysis summary (30 min)
TBD
I can define and use the following vocabulary: abiotic, biotic, autotroph, heterotroph, trophic level, 1st, 2nd, 3rd level consumers, pyramid(s) of numbers, biomass and energy, carbohydrate, fat, glucose, photosynthesis, habitat, niche, symbiosis, parasitism, commensalism, mutualism, nutrient cycles, nitrogen fixation, legume, lightning, amino acid, protein, carbon dioxide, energy transfer, energy transformation
Agenda:
I can define and use the following vocabulary: abiotic, biotic, autotroph, heterotroph, trophic level, 1st, 2nd, 3rd level consumers, pyramid(s) of numbers, biomass and energy, carbohydrate, fat, glucose, photosynthesis, habitat, niche, symbiosis, parasitism, commensalism, mutualism, nutrient cycles, nitrogen fixation, legume, lightning, amino acid, protein, carbon dioxide, energy transfer, energy transformation
Agenda:
- Turn in your Hairy Vetch Legume Symbiosis Packet
- LT 1-7 Practice Quiz - You may take this up to 12 times. Keep trying until you get 100%
- Test Monday- Vocabulary T-chart review using vocabulary above.
- Submit your Learning Targets in Schoology for grading [AS A PDF] by the end of today's class.
- Be sure to prepare for Monday's test by:
- Reviewing the learning targets
- Reviewing your two quizzes on Schoology (Symbiosis and LT 1-7 Quiz)
- Preparing and practicing your Essential Questions found at the top of this webpage