Big Idea & Content
Big Idea: How does biodiversity impact organisms’ relationships in an ecosystem.
Core Content Objectives:
- Obtaining, evaluating and communicating information.
- Defining biodiversity
- Explaining Interdependent relationships in ecosystems
- Classifying plants and animals
Essential Vocabulary
Biodiversity
Ecosystem
Interdependent
Classification
Arthropod
Organisms
Investigations & Explorations
Digital Investigation:
Resources for NSTA Journals
What’s Bugging You?
Science via Photography
Extreme Arthropods
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Rainforest by Fleur Star
Resources for The Most Beautiful Roof in the World
Next Generation Science Standards
Life Science 1 From Molecules to Organisms: Structure and Processes
- Support an argument that plants get the materials they need for growth chiefly from air and water.
Life Science 2 Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics
- Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment.
Earth Space Science 3 Earth and Human Activity
- Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth’s resources and environment.
Technology Resources & Integration
Resources to create field guides:
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