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Unit Overview – Interactions Among Living Things

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Unit Overview – Interactions Among Living Things

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  1. Unit Overview – Interactions Among Living Things Unit overview: This unit will lead students in understanding that the sun is the primary source of energy, and that organisms depend on one another as well as their environment for survival. Students will be able to use and create a food web to demonstrate that matter and energy are transferred and recycled among organisms and their environment. Refer to GPS Framework for acceptable tasks. General Concept Overview – food webs, energy pyramids, recycling of matter, carbon and nitrogen cycles, symbiotic/competitive relationships, biotic and abiotic factors

  2. Georgia Performance Standards Focus Content Standard Elements S7L1a. Demonstrate the process for the development of a dichotomous key. S7L1b. Classify organisms based on physical characteristics using a dichotomous key of the six kingdom system (archaebacteria, eubacteria, protists, fungi, plants, and animals). S7L4a. Demonstrate in a food web that matter is transferred from one organism to another and can recycle between organisms and their environments. S7L4b. Explain in a food web that sunlight is the source of energy and that this energy moves from organism to organism. S7L4c. Recognize that changes in environmental conditions can affect the survival • S7L1. Students will investigate the diversity of living organisms and how they can be compared scientifically. • S7L4. Students will examine the dependence of organisms on one another and their environments.

  3. Georgia Performance Standards Essential Questions Characteristics of Science S7CS1. Students will explore of the importance of curiosity, honesty, openness, and skepticism in science and will exhibit these traits in their own efforts to understand how the world works. S7CS2. Students will use standard safety practices for all classroom laboratory and field investigations. S7CS3. Students will have the computation and estimation skills necessary for analyzing data and following scientific explanations. S7CS4. Students will use tools and instruments for observing, measuring, and manipulating equipment and materials in scientific activities. S7CS6. Students will communicate scientific ideas and activities clearly. S7CS7. Students will question scientific claims and arguments effectively. S7CS8. Students will investigate the characteristics of scientific knowledge and how that knowledge is achieved. S7CS10. Students will enhance reading in all curriculum areas • Essential Questions: • Where does the energy in all ecosystems come from? • Why are there fewer animals than plants? • How is energy recycled between organisms and the environment? • How are food chains, food webs, and energy pyramids related? • How do relationships among organisms affect the ecosystem and its food webs? • What is the effect of biotic and abiotic factors on an ecosystem?

  4. Georgia Performance Standards Complementary Standards Elements S7L5a. Explain how physical characteristics of organism have changed over successive generations. • S7L5. Students will examine the evolution of living organism through inherited characteristics that promote the survival of organisms and survival of successive generations of their offspring.

  5. Wednesday, 2.1.12Happy Birthday Will“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” Mother Teresa • Go over outline 20-2 • Counting Turtles – Pre-Lab • Ecosystem Art • SFP Logbook: Results Part III due Mon. 2/6

  6. Thursday, 2.2.12“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”Henry David Thoreau • Counting Turtles (p689) • Finish Ecosystem Art • SFP Logbook: Results Part III due Mon. 2/6 • Finish Ecosystem Art

  7. Friday, 2.3.12 • Outline 20-3 in class • SFP Logbook: Results Part III due Mon. 2/6

  8. Monday, 2.6.12“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”Robert A. Heinlein • Turn in Ecology Art and 20-3 outline • Symbiosis Thinking Map • Begin Good Buddies • SFP Journal: Conclusion due Monday, 2/13

  9. Tuesday, 2.7.12"All you need is love."John Lennon • Finish Good Buddies • Begin 21-1 outline (due Thursday) • SFP Journal: Conclusion due Monday, 2/13 • Outline 21-1 due Thursday

  10. Wednesday, 2.8.12Happy Birthday Regan! • Thinking Map • Outline 21-1 • WS – Enrich – ALL of it • SFP Journal: Conclusion due Monday, 2/13 • WS – “Enrich” ALL of it due Tuesday • 21-1 due tomorrow • “If you would be loved, love and be lovable.”Benjamin Franklin

  11. Thursday, 2.9.12“There is only one happiness in life—to love and be loved.” – George Sands • insect photos • Turn in 21-1 • Food Pyramids • Activity: A Georgia Forest Food Web • Bill Nye: Food Web • SFP Journal: Conclusion due Monday, 2/13 • WS – “Enrich” ALL of it due Tuesday

  12. Friday, 2.10.12The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller • A Case Study “Alaskan Coastal Populations” • Bill Nye: Food Webs • WS - Enrich • SFP Journal: Conclusion due Monday, 2/13 • Ecology Test Wednesday • WS: Enrich due Tuesday

  13. Monday, 2.13.12“Love one another and you will be happy; it is as simple and as difficult as that.” – Michael Leunig • Media Center – work on projects • SFP – Final Logbook check • SCIENCE FAIR PROJECT – ALL PARTS due NEXT TUESDAY!!!!! • Ecology Test Wednesday

  14. Tuesday, 2.14.12Happy Valentine’s Day1:05 – Winge survey • WS - Enrich • Review Ecology Test • Article “The Real Cost of Cheap Food” • SCIENCE FAIR PROJECT – ALL PARTS due NEXT TUESDAY!!!!! • Ecology Test Wednesday

  15. Wednesday, 2.15.12Happy Birthday Ashley DHate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. Martin Luther King Jr • Ecology Test • Article “The Real Cost of Cheap Food” • SCIENCE FAIR PROJECT – ALL PARTS due NEXT TUESDAY!!!!!

  16. Thursday, 2.16.12“Who, being loved, is poor?” – Oscar Wilde • Video “Super Size Me” • SCIENCE FAIR PROJECT – ALL PARTS due NEXT TUESDAY!!!!!

  17. Friday, 2.17.12Happy Birthday Julia B, Jonathan H., and Morgan H • Video “Super Size Me” • SCIENCE FAIR PROJECT – ALL PARTS due NEXT TUESDAY!!!!!

  18. Tuesday, 2.21.12Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase.Martin Luther King Jr. • Present Science Fair Projects to Class No homework

  19. Wednesday, 2.22.12Freedom is never given; it is won.  ~A. Philip Randolph • Finish presenting projects • Go over Ecology Test • Discuss Biome Project • No homework

  20. Thursday, 2.23.12Happy Birthday CurtisIf there is no struggle, there is no progress.  ~Frederick Douglass • Media Center: Biome Travel Brochure • Biome Travel Brochure due ???

  21. Friday, 2.24.12Happy Birthday Becca and Dr. Hall!The time is always right to do what is right.  ~Martin Luther King, Jr. • Video: Tundra • Outline and questions 21-4 • No homework

  22. Monday, 2.27.12“Where there is love there is life.” – Mohandas K. Gandhi • Ecology Test • Venn Diagram: Tundra and Taiga • Creative Writing assignment • QPA Study Guide due next Monday • Staple and turn in Wednesday • Video notes: Tundra • Video notes:Coniferous • Venn Diagram • Creative Writing • Staple and turn in Thursday • 21-4 outline • P736 and 739

  23. Tuesday, 2.28.12Happy Birthday Tahmina!I had no idea that history was being made.  I was just tired of giving up.  ~Rosa Parks • Video: Deciduous Forest • Read Creative Writing • 21-4 • QPA Study Guide due next Monday • 21-4 due Thursday

  24. Wednesday, 2.29.12Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself. Oprah Winfrey • Video: Rainforest • Read Writing • 21-4 • QPA Study Guide due next Monday • 21-4 due Thursday

  25. Thursday, March 1 • Venn Diagram: Deciduous Forest and Rainforest • Read Writing • 21-4 • Benchmark next Week: • Monday: Science and Connections #1 • Tuesday: Social Studies and Connections #2 • Wednesday: Language Arts • Thursday: Math

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