Prairie Ecosystem Rainfall and Bird Beaks Species, Populations, and Communities Ecosystem Standard 1 – Earth System – 2 Weeks CLE 3255.3.3 Apply the Describe how energy is transferred Academic Vocabulary first and second laws of from the sun to producers and then HRW Environmental Science – How Photosynthesis, producer, thermodynamics to to consumers. Ecosystems Work - Chapter 5 Text consumer, decomposer, explain the flow of cellular respiration, food energy through a food Describe one way in which Activities/Labs chain, food web, trophic chain or web. consumers depend on producers. Active Readings, CRF Ch. 5 Sect. 5.1 and level, carbon cycle, 5.2, and 5.3, cite the location of the nitrogen-fixing bacteria, CLE 3255.3.4 Analyze Identify the two types of consumers. answer, i.e. line, paragraph nitrogen cycle, phosphorus how biomass is related to cycle, ecological trophic levels. Explain how energy transfer in a Map Skills: succession, primary food web is more complete than succession, secondary Global Warming, CRF p. 14 CLE 3255.4.1Describe energy transfer in a food chain. succession, pioneer Doppler Radar Tracking of Bats and the flow of energy flow species, climax community Insects in Central Texas, p. 150 through an ecosystem. Explain why an energy pyramid is a Case Studies: representation of tropic levels. Performance Tasks DDT In An Aquatic Food Chain, pp. CLE 3255.4.2 Describe Global Food Web 128-129 how matter cycles Examine how ecosystem structure is Divide the students into five Communities Maintained By Fair, pp. through various related to population changes and groups. Give each group 138-139 biogeochemical cycles. the transfer of pollutants. one of the following Exploration Labs locations, and tell them that Dissecting Owl Pellets, pp. 148-149 CLE 3255.4.3 Evaluate List the three stages of the carbon their task is to determine a CBL Probeware: Best Food for Yeast the process of cycle. food web that exists there: CRF Ch. 5 pp 32-37 succession. a salt marsh in Florida, a Calculating Land Area, CRF Ch. 5 pp. Describe where fossil fuels are coral reef in the Caribbean, 38-41 CLE 3260.1.1 Explain located. the Sonoran Desert in
Prairie Ecosystem Rainfall and Bird Beaks Species, Populations, and Communities Ecosystem Standard 1 – Earth System – 2 Weeks CLE 3255.3.3 Apply the first and second laws of thermodynamics to explain the flow of energy through a food chain or web. CLE 3255.3.4 Analyze how biomass is related to trophic levels. CLE 3255.4.1Describe the flow of energy flow through an ecosystem. CLE 3255.4.2 Describe how matter cycles through various biogeochemical cycles. CLE 3255.4.3 Evaluate the process of succession. CLE 3260.1.1 Explain Describe how energy is transferred from the sun to producers and then to consumers. Describe one way in which consumers depend on producers. Identify the two types of consumers. Explain how energy transfer in a food web is more complete than energy transfer in a food chain. Explain why an energy pyramid is a representation of tropic levels. Examine how ecosystem structure is related to population changes and the transfer of pollutants. List the three stages of the carbon cycle. Describe where fossil fuels are located. HRW Environmental Science – How Ecosystems Work - Chapter 5 Text Activities/Labs Active Readings, CRF Ch. 5 Sect. 5.1 and 5.2, and 5.3, cite the location of the answer, i.e. line, paragraph Map Skills: Global Warming, CRF p. 14 Doppler Radar Tracking of Bats and Insects in Central Texas, p. 150 Case Studies: DDT In An Aquatic Food Chain, pp. 128-129 Communities Maintained By Fair, pp. 138-139 Exploration Labs Dissecting Owl Pellets, pp. 148-149 CBL Probeware: Best Food for Yeast CRF Ch. 5 pp 32-37 Calculating Land Area, CRF Ch. 5 pp. 38-41 Academic Vocabulary Photosynthesis, producer, consumer, decomposer, cellular respiration, food chain, food web, trophic level, carbon cycle, nitrogen-fixing bacteria, nitrogen cycle, phosphorus cycle, ecological succession, primary succession, secondary succession, pioneer species, climax community Performance Tasks Global Food Web Divide the students into five groups. Give each group one of the following locations, and tell them that their task is to determine a food web that exists there: a salt marsh in Florida, a coral reef in the Caribbean, the Sonoran Desert in
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