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Eco-Trekkers

Classroom Pre-work. Activities in your school begin four or five days prior to the Eco-Trekker's field study and will include:producers, consumers,

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Eco-Trekkers

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    1. Eco-Trekkers Pre-Trip Visit – Cold Weather

    2. Classroom Pre-work Activities in your school begin four or five days prior to the Eco-Trekker’s field study and will include: producers, consumers, & decomposers food chains competition living & non-living factors predators prey

    3. Think about How You Will Make Your Eco-Chamber Options: terrestrial or aquatic eco-chambers

    4. Your 5th grade will be divided into four separate groups called the…

    5. Bus Ride to Field Study Teacher/Naturalist will board the bus and let you know what to bring off at each site

    6. At Miami Beach you will study two aquatic ecosystems.

    7. Introduction to the Day Pass out science logs Discuss the details of the day

    8. Science Logs Scientists collect data. You will record your data in science logs.

    9. Shoreline Ecosystem What are the parts of a food chain and how do they interact with each other and their environment?

    10. Non-living Factors Use four of your senses to identify non-living factors found at the shoreline ecosystem.

    11. Non-living Factors Thermometers - determine the air temperature and water temperature at the shoreline ecosystem

    12. Non-living Factors Using a chart of the Chesapeake Bay, predict the salinity of the water of Miami Beach’s shoreline ecosystem.

    13. Non-living Factors Digital salinity meters - determine the salinity of the water at the shoreline ecosystem

    14. Living Factors Seine net - collect producers, consumers, and evidence of decomposers from the shoreline ecosystem

    15. Living Factors: Producers

    16. Living Factors: Consumers

    17. Living Factors: Food Chains After seining - use some of the producers, consumers, and decomposers you collected to create a food chain

    18. Record all the data you collected about the living factors into your science log.

    19. Wetland Ecosystem Why are sunlight and decomposers important to a successful ecosystem?

    20. Non-living Factors Use four of your senses to identify non-living factors found at the wetland ecosystem.

    21. Living Factors

    22. Non-living Factors Thermometers - determine the air temperature and water temperature at the wetland ecosystem

    23. Non-living Factors Digital salinity meters - determine the salinity of the water at the wetland ecosystem

    24. Living Factors Dip netting - collect producers, consumers, and decomposers

    25. Living Factors Look carefully through the detritus for tiny organisms hiding from predators!

    26. Living Factors Aquatic organisms called macroinvertebrates can often be found in the detritus.

    27. Living Factors: Producers Identify common producers found in a wetland ecosystem.

    28. Living Factors: Consumers

    29. Living Factors: Decomposers

    30. Record all the data you collected about the living factors into your science log.

    31. Lunchtime!

    32. Lunchtime during cold weather!

    33. Time to take the bus from Miami Beach to Marshy Point Nature Center

    34. The teacher/naturalist will board the bus and let you know what to bring with you

    35. At Marshy Point Nature Center you will study two terrestrial ecosystems.

    36. Forest Ecosystem How does competition among trees affect the growth of a forest over time?

    37. Non-living Factors Use four of your senses to identify non-living factors found at the forest ecosystem.

    38. Non-living Factors Thermometers - determine the air temperature and water temperature at the forest ecosystem

    39. Non-living Factors Digital salinity meters - determine the salinity at the forest ecosystem

    40. Transects Used by scientists to count and/or measure something within a defined area

    41. Counting and Measuring the Trees in a Sapling and a Mature Forest

    42. Drawing Conclusions Record the data onto the Tree Tally in order to draw conclusions about competition in a forest ecosystem.

    43. Living Factors: Producers

    44. Living Factors: Consumers

    45. Living Factors: Decomposers

    46. Record all the data you collected about the living factors into your science log.

    47. Meadow Ecosystem What are the roles within a predator/prey relationship and how do these relationships affect the number of organisms within an ecosystem?

    48. Non-living Factors Use four of your senses to identify non-living factors found at the meadow ecosystem.

    49. Non-living Factors Thermometers - determine the air temperature and water temperature at the meadow ecosystem

    50. Non-living Factors Digital salinity meters - determine the salinity at the meadow ecosystem

    51. Living Factors Sweep netting - collect samples of producers, consumers, and decomposers from the meadow ecosystem

    52. Living Factors Remove the consumers from the sweep nets. Place them in bug boxes. Observe the consumers and identify them.

    53. Living Factors: Producers

    54. Living Factors: Consumers

    55. Record all the data you collected about the living factors into your science log.

    56. Time to Go Home The field study might be over, but not your role as a scientist!

    57. Back at School: The Data You Collected Matters! We enter the data you collected online. Use your data to draw conclusions about the different ecosystems.

    58. With the Click of a Button, Your Data Turns into a Line Graph!

    59. Final Project – Eco-Chambers Using what you learned in the classroom and on the field study, you will make an eco-chamber.

    60. Cold Weather: Equipment You Need to Bring Backpack Plastic bags (2-3) Hand towel Extra clothes: socks, underwear, pants or shorts, shirt Spare shoes/sneakers Warm hat & Gloves Rain gear (possibly) Sharpened pencils Water bottle Trash free lunch

    61. Warm Weather: Equipment You Need to Bring Backpack Plastic bags (2-3) Hand towel Extra clothes: socks, underwear, pants or shorts, shirt Spare shoes/sneakers Hat Rain gear (possibly) Sunscreen Sharpened pencils Water bottle Trash free lunch

    62. Clothing IF weather permits, you will go into the water. DO come dressed the morning of your field study as if you were to go directly into the water. Do NOT come to school thinking you will have an opportunity to change into clothes you can wear into the water. There is not enough time to do this during your field study. You will change into dry clothing AFTER you go into the water. DO wear old clothing and shoes/sneakers that can get wet and/or muddy.

    63. Appropriate Footwear Acceptable Footwear Footwear with laces Sneakers (preferably old ones) Boots Unacceptable Footwear Open-toed shoes such as: Flip-flops, sandals Teva’s Croc’s

    64. Scientists are Tough! No matter what the weather, you will be attending the Eco-Trekker field study. If lightning/thunder develop, we will go indoors. Be prepared for the weather!

    65. Trash Free Lunch Trash Free Lunch Reusable lunch bag Reusable water bottle Plastic containers used to hold food NOT a Trash Free Lunch Plastic bag for lunch bag Juice box Plastic baggies/Zip-lock baggies used to hold food Lunchables

    66. See you soon!

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