- Welcome/Overview
- Content Notes
- Lesson and Activities
- Lesson 1-Living Systems-Where do we fit?
- Lesson 2- Explore Your "Wild" World!>
- Lesson 3- Building Food Chains and Food Webs>
- Lesson 4- Owls- A Mighty Predator
- Lesson 5- About Ecosystems>
- Lesson 6- We Are Explorers! (day1 of 2 lessons)>
- Lesson 7- We Are Explorers (day 2 of 2 lessons)
- Lesson 8-A Closer Look at Communities
- Lesson 9- What's in the Water?
- Lesson 10- Our Environment/Our World>
- Websites for Kids
- Books Used Throughout Lessons 1-10
- Assessment Page
Lesson 10- Our Environment/Our World
Objectives:
Apple Activity- I good size apple, paper plate, knife sharp enough to slice the apple.
Lesson:
Student will:
*Apple Activity taken from Earth: The Apple of our Eye activity included in a Population Connection presentation attended on Feb 28, 2013.
The Reporter, Volume 40, Issue 3, September 2008, ppgs 9-10, www.popconnect.org.,http://www.populationconnection.org/site/DocServer/SeptemberReporter.pdf, accessed March 5, 2013.
- Investigate to understand the human role in preserving the planet by conserving limited resources
- Identify one way that humans can conserve resources in our larger community buy preserving lands suitable for farming.
- Review big ideas and concepts for assessment
Apple Activity- I good size apple, paper plate, knife sharp enough to slice the apple.
Lesson:
- Play songs from Raff's Evergreen/EverBlue CD while students reflect on the fact shown on the board-
- Put this Fact up on the board- " Farmland is a non-renewable resource. With a limited amount of land on our planet and a growing number people on our planet, protecting land resources should be a priority."
- Have Students reflect on what statement might mean to our environment. Draw a picture of what this looks like in Science Journal.
- Ask probing questions of students to really get them to think deeply about it. Ask them to think about the Wolf Hunt activity. How does it relate? Use every opportunity to review term.
- Discuss how important plants are to our environment. Review their role in the exchange of energy.
- Pull up: Google Images of Terrestrial Ecosystems - Pick a Food Chain and/or Food Web and walk through what would happen again if one element were gone. Let's relate this to our food chain.
- *Apple Activity -Use an apple to serve as a model of Earth. Teacher will cut one apple discussing what each slice or group of slices represents in terms of sections of the land available on earth. Good opportunity to practice fractions as well. See Explanantion and Graphs attached.
- Talk About what this means to us.
- Use discussion questions included with the activity to discuss how humans are impacting what little farm land there is on earth.
- Read the book Pass the Energy Please by Barbara Shaw McKinney
- Reflection: How can you make a difference?
- Review All of the Living Systems Vocabulary Words in Science Journal. Make sure all definitions are accurate and completed.
- Begin reviewing for Unit Test.
Student will:
- Review key concepts
- Use individual white boards to answer review questions
- Review and evaluate student journals for accuracy, quality of entries, and acquisition of learning focusing on the key concepts studied during Lessons 1-10.
- The Science Journal will be Collected before final review for test
- Monitor daily student/teacher exchanges as we discuss new and old material to be sure students are using new terms correctly and connecting with the content.
*Apple Activity taken from Earth: The Apple of our Eye activity included in a Population Connection presentation attended on Feb 28, 2013.
The Reporter, Volume 40, Issue 3, September 2008, ppgs 9-10, www.popconnect.org.,http://www.populationconnection.org/site/DocServer/SeptemberReporter.pdf, accessed March 5, 2013.