Lessons Overview and Outline

Overview of Lessons described eloquently by Barbara Shaw McKinney.
(Taken from her book Pass the Energy Please!,Published in 1999 by Dawn Publications.)

        Food manufacturing starts with a seed,
        and energy waits in a plant to be freed.
    Like an engine that powers the rest of the train,
        a plant's the first link in an energy chain.

      Each Creature that feeds on a plant is a link,
           an absorbing energy, quick as a wink.
   If that feeder, itself, becomes someone's next meal,
        it lengthens the chain, like a new link of steel.

         And so there's a pattern of energy passed:
       a food chain has formed, first hitched to last.
               Each living thing is a link in a chain
    with a purpose that Nature can always explain.
                                                                                                                            By Barbara Shaw McKinney

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Outline of Lessons

I. Welcome/Overview-
II. Content-
    a. Standards 3.5 & 3.6
    b. Living Systems Vocabulary List
III. Lesson Overview and Outline
    a. Lesson 1- Living Systems- Where do we fit?
    b. Lesson 2- Explore Your "Wild" World
        i. Treasure Hunt List
    c. Lesson 3- Building Food Chains & Food webs
        i. Terrestrial/Aquatic Foldables
    d. Lesson 4- Owls - A Mighty Predator
    e. Lesson 5- About Ecosystems
        i. Teacher's Trip to Alaska
        ii. Ecosystems Foldables
    f.  Lesson 6- We Are Explorers (day 1 of 2 day lesson)
        i. Explorer's Field Guide Questions
    g. Lesson 7- We Are Explorers (day 2 of 2 day lesson)
    h. Lesson 8- A Closer Look at Communities
    i.  Lesson 9- What's In the Water?
    j.  Lesson 10- Our Environment/Our World
        i. Sample of Apple Graphs
IV. Books
V. Websites