- 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
More Fun Interactive Websites and Games
Cool Images-
Be A Stream Explorer-Trout Unlimited- Kids Website That discuss the adaptations of a trout as well as looks at its food chain. Also discusses how to get involved. Talks about Fishing. Great one for the outdoors woman or man!
Jigsaw Puzzles on Ecosystems--Create an ecosystem puzzle. This website is a great way to identify components of a variety of ecosystems and have a little fun. It is a race against the clock so see how fast you can put puzzles together. This is located on the neok12 site. This site is jammed packed with resources for teaching science as well as other subjects that students, parents, and teachers might find helpful. You will find references to this website throughout many of the lessons included on this Unit Resource Site.
Kid's Corner- Great site to practice creating food chains. Food Chain Game allows students struggle to work on the simple one's first and move up when you are ready. Great for differentiated learners and those at various levels. The Producers and Consumers Tab has great illustrations to help explain content.
Photo Safari- National Geographic website fun. In this game players must guess the type of beetle by correctly identifying the picture before time runs out. How Aware are you? A great way to remind kids to pay attention to the details of nature all around them. They might seem some really cool things.
Stack Attack- also on the NationalGeographic website. This game really test your reflexes. To avoid the "Stack Attack" Player must identify 3 match groups of creatures.
Word-O-Rama- Found on www.Learning games for kids. A fun interactive way to practice Ecology terminology. Set up In a game show format. Great way to review and thing about different kinds of animals.
* Other fun and interactive websites and activities can be found under the Website Extensions section of lessons included in this site.
Be A Stream Explorer-Trout Unlimited- Kids Website That discuss the adaptations of a trout as well as looks at its food chain. Also discusses how to get involved. Talks about Fishing. Great one for the outdoors woman or man!
Jigsaw Puzzles on Ecosystems--Create an ecosystem puzzle. This website is a great way to identify components of a variety of ecosystems and have a little fun. It is a race against the clock so see how fast you can put puzzles together. This is located on the neok12 site. This site is jammed packed with resources for teaching science as well as other subjects that students, parents, and teachers might find helpful. You will find references to this website throughout many of the lessons included on this Unit Resource Site.
Kid's Corner- Great site to practice creating food chains. Food Chain Game allows students struggle to work on the simple one's first and move up when you are ready. Great for differentiated learners and those at various levels. The Producers and Consumers Tab has great illustrations to help explain content.
Photo Safari- National Geographic website fun. In this game players must guess the type of beetle by correctly identifying the picture before time runs out. How Aware are you? A great way to remind kids to pay attention to the details of nature all around them. They might seem some really cool things.
Stack Attack- also on the NationalGeographic website. This game really test your reflexes. To avoid the "Stack Attack" Player must identify 3 match groups of creatures.
Word-O-Rama- Found on www.Learning games for kids. A fun interactive way to practice Ecology terminology. Set up In a game show format. Great way to review and thing about different kinds of animals.
* Other fun and interactive websites and activities can be found under the Website Extensions section of lessons included in this site.