Teacher Notes

Next Generation Standards:

3. Inheritance and Variation of Traits: Life Cycles and Traits
3-LS1-1. Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and
diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth and reproduction.
3-LS3-1. Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence that plants
and animals have traits inherited from parents and that variation of these
traits exists in a group of similar organisms
3-LS3-2. Use evidence to support the explanation that traits can be
influenced by the environment.
3-LS4-2. Use evidence to construct an explanation for how the
variations in characteristics among individuals of the same species may
provide advantages in surviving, finding mates, and reproducing.
Objectives
SWBAT identify living and nonliving objects
SWBAT identify patterns of environmental changes and the adaptations of
living objects.
SWBAT develop a logical argument proving which animal will survive over
another.
SWABAT create their own food web and food chain.
CCSS
4.1.3.A: Differentiate between the living and non-living components in an
environment.
4.1.3.E: Identify changes in the environment over time.
Essential Question: What is an ecosystem?
Teacher Notes
Slide 1-Title Page
Slide 2- Teacher Notes
Slide 3- Non-living/ living Chart: Students will need to organize and move the
objects into their correct space
Slide 4- Non-living vs. living chart

Slide 5- Roles in the Ecosystem

Slide 6 &7- Consumers: Drag down green boxes to revel definitions of
vocabulary
Slide 8- Food Chain
Slide 9- Food Chain Example
Slide 10- Create your own food chain: Teachers will start class in example.
Drag the objects into the correct location to create a food chain. Each food
chain has 4 objects. Draw arrows showing the order of the food chain.
Slide 11- Food webs
Slide 12- Example of food web
Slide 13- Interactive example of food web. Click on picture, which will bring
you to the internet game page.
Slide 14- Picture of pond- link to following slides on top of page
Slides 15-17- Assessment Questions: There is a link back to the pond page.
Sources

SMART exchange