Brittanie Schnell
Web of Life
Description:
In this fifth grade lesson, students will research the plant
and animal populations of a specific ecosystem. Each student will pick one
plant or animal and decide what that animal needs to survive and what affects
it. Students will then tape a picture of their animal to their chest, they will
hold onto a piece of yarn and pass it to another organism in the ecosystem that
it’s affected by. Eventually each student will be a part of the web. You can
then pull on the string and explain that everything feels any stress put on the
ecosystem, then you have one animal dropout and have others drop their string
if they’re also affected and keep doing that until the web falls apart.
Next Generation Science Standards:
Performance Expectation:
Science and Engineering Practice
Disciplinary Core Idea
Crosscutting Concepts
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Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among
plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment.
Developing and using models and engaging in argument
from evidence.
Energy in chemical process in everyday life,
organization of matter flow in organisms, interdependent relationships in
ecosystems, and cycles of matter and energy transfer in ecosystems.
Systems and system models and energy and matter.
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Materials
Materials are limited in this exercise, we only need a yarn
ball and piece of paper. Each student will be handed a piece of paper and tape.
The yarn will be distributed as a part of the activity.
Science Concepts
Plant and animal populations exhibit interrelated cycles of
growth and decline. Ecosystems possess measurable indicators of environmental
health.
ZOO Project
Changes in Temperature
Tree Activity
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