Opening:

-Review Digital Expectations

-Standard

-Essential Question

-Learning Target

-Phenomena Activity

Digital Expectations:

--Be on time

--Participate in the lesson

--Make sure your sound is on

--Follow the Student Code of Conduct

Standard:

S7L4--Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information to examine the interdependence of organisms with one another and their environments. (b) develop a model to describe the cycling of matter and the flow of energy among biotic and abiotic components of an ecosystem. 

Essential Questions:

-How does matter and energy flow through an ecosystem?

-How can we model the flow of matter and energy through an ecosystem?

Learning Target:

By the completion of this lesson, I will be able to describe and model the flow of energy in an ecosystem.

Energy Transfer Phenomena

-Next, we will watch a video of a caterpillar. As you watch, notice what the caterpillar is doing. How do you think the caterpillar is able to transform? What does the caterpillar need?

Work Session:

-Vocabulary Review

-Food Chain Model

-Food Chain Practice

-Food Web Model

-Food Web Practice

-Classwork (Independent Practice)

Vocabulary Review:

-ecosystem

-biotic

-abiotic

-energy flow

-food chain

-food web

Food Chain Model

-Food chains start with producers and the chain continues with organisms that consume the previous organism.

Food Chain Practice

--We will complete Food Chain practice models using the website on the following slide.

Food Web Model

-Many FOOD CHAINS make up a FOOD WEB. (See how many different food chains can make up a food web?)

--We will complete a Food Web model using the website on the following slide (Click on the "Open in New Tab" link.)

Food Chain & Food Webs Classwork

-Look at the food chains and food webs on the following slides and answer the questions.

Closing:

-Questions

-Assignment

-Exit Slip

Questions?

Any questions about today's lesson or assignment?

Assignment:

-Create a food web poster for a chosen biome that includes a minimum of 15 organisms/species. Your poster should include the name of your biome and labels for the organisms (also include labels for producers and consumers). See assignment resources for additional information.

Wow! You did great!! Enjoy the rest of your day; I'll see you tomorrow!