Mrs.

Swift: Ecology

7th Grade Science, April 7th 11th

Objectives:
Energy Effect on Food Web: The learner will be able to diagram and describe the transfer of energy (almost all the energy source is from the sun) in an aquatic food web and a land food web with reference to producers, consumers, decomposers, scavengers, and predator/prey relationships. (MPS7-5) Effect of Ecosystems: The learner will be able to identify biotic and abiotic factors found in an ecosystem and be able to predict how these factors affect the populations and species found in ecosystems: competition, food sources, temperature, pollution, habitat destruction, global warming, floods, and forest fires. (MPS7-4) Survival Advantages: The learner will be able to predict how certain traits and structural features (e.g. structure of teeth, body structure , coloration, hollow bones/flight, hair/insulation, dense root structure/compact soil, and seed vs. spore) may offer a survival advantage to an organism. (MPS7-3) Element Cycles: The learner will be able to illustrate the recycling of matter in the water, nitrogen and carbon cycles. (MPS7-6)

MONDAY 7 Bell Work: Draw an example of a food chain found in Moberly Lesson: Magazine Cut-out Food Chain/Food Web Poster 8

TUESDAY 9

WEDNESDAY 10

THURSDAY 11

FRIDAY

Bell Work: Tracking Lesson: Puzzle Vocabulary Terms

Bell Work: Poster Lesson: Puzzle with table partner Food WebIllustration with Yarn

Bell Work: Lesson: Food Web Tag

Bell Work: Complete Lesson: Vanishing of Bees Effect of a vanishing species on a food web

Learning Target:Today I can define a food chain and food web.

Learning Target:Today I can create define producer, consumer, decomposer, scavenger, predator, and prey.

Learning Target: Today I can visualize a food web using a food web yarn analogy.

Learning Target: Today I can visualize interactions between living organisms in a food web.

Learning Target: Today I can describe the effect on an ecosystem when a particular specices goes extinct.

Lesson plans may change throughout the week. *Questions? Comments? Email me at aswift@moberly.k12.mo.us