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This unit supports distance learning- a PDF with links to Google Drive is included in order to assign student activities remotely.
Ecology 3 week unit with 200+ pages including interactive notebook activities, task cards, review games. Covers ecosystems, energy flow, food webs, population growth, biogeochemical cycles, biomes and human impact.
This unit can be used as a stand alone curriculum or as part of an existing curriculum.
4-5 week unit plan with answer keys and unit planner included!
✽✽ Ecology Notes ✽✽
1 power point divided into 5 sections)
covers the following:
-Introduction to Ecology (basic vocabulary and succession)
-Energy Flow in Ecosystems (primary productivity, trophic levels, producers/consumers, energy pyramids, biomass)
- Population Growth (dispersion, density, exponential vs. logistic growth, determining growth rate, density-independent vs. density dependent factors, r-strategists vs. K-strategists).
- Biogeochemical Cycles: Water, Carbon, Nitrogen
-Communities: Niche- fundamental vs. realized, invasive species, symbiosis + coevolution.
✽✽ Practice Sheets (Classwork and Homework) include: ✽✽
-What is an Ecosystem? -
-Primary Succession Cut-n-Paste Timeline
-Ecological Succession of a Pond
-Energy Flow in Ecosystems
-Food Web Visual Vibes
-Population Growth
-Population Growth and Data
-Predation or Starvation?
Drawing Biogeochemical Cycles
Biogeochemical Cycles and You
Human Impact PowerPoint Presentation
Worksheets: Invasive Species, Climate Change and Agriculture, Dams
Rubric: Invasive Species Project
Deforestation online lesson
✽✽ Interactive Notebook Activities ✽✽
There are 15+ activities to choose from- designed for INBs or can be used as independent projects.
**ATLAS Inquiry**
3-4 days worth of inquiry activities (optional) that satisfy model based learning.
✽✽ Ecology Web Quests ✽✽
Human Population Growth Web Quest
**Study Tool**
✽✽ Quizzes ✽✽
5 Quizzes: 3 open note quizzes (can be modified to suit your style) + 2 quizzes
1 Unit Test (multiple choice and open response)
✽✽ Viewing Guides for your Viewing Pleasure! ✽✽
Bonus! 2 Viewing Guides (Parasites: Eating Us Alive; Cane Toads: An Unnatural History)
✽✽ All About Biomes! ✽✽
Biome Notes (world biomes); Biome Mapping Across North America, and Biodiversity Bingo.
➩ ➩ Looking for the entire curriculum? You can get this unit along with several others in my Big Biology Curriculum Bundle
Related NGSS Standards:
- HS-LS2-1: Use mathematical and/or computational representations (graphs, charts, histograms, and population changes gathered from simulations or historical data sets) to support explanations of factors that affect carrying capacity of ecosystems at different scales.
- HS-LS2-2: Use mathematical representations to support and revise explanations based on evidence about factors affecting biodiversity and populations in ecosystems of different scales.
- HS-LS2-3: Construct and revise an explanation based on evidence for the cycling of matter and flow of energy in aerobic and anaerobic conditions.
- HS-LS2-4: Use mathematical representations to support claims for the cycling of matter and flow of energy among organisms in an ecosystem.
- HS-LS2-5: Develop a model (simulations and mathematical models) to illustrate the role of photosynthesis and cellular respiration in the cycling of carbon among the biosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and geosphere.
- HS-LS2-6: Evaluate the claims, evidence, and reasoning that the complex interactions in ecosystems maintain relatively consistent numbers and types of organisms in stable conditions, but changing conditions may result in a new ecosystem.
- HS-LS2-7: Design, evaluate, and refine a solution for reducing the impacts of human activities on the environment and biodiversity.
- HS-LS2-8: Evaluate the evidence for the role of group behavior on individual and species’ chances to survive and reproduce.
- HS-LS4-6: Create or revise a simulation to test a solution to mitigate adverse impacts of human activity on biodiversity.
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Description
This unit supports distance learning- a PDF with links to Google Drive is included in order to assign student activities remotely.
Ecology 3 week unit with 200+ pages including interactive notebook activities, task cards, review games. Covers ecosystems, energy flow, food webs, population growth, biogeochemical cycles, biomes and human impact.
This unit can be used as a stand alone curriculum or as part of an existing curriculum.
4-5 week unit plan with answer keys and unit planner included!
✽✽ Ecology Notes ✽✽
1 power point divided into 5 sections)
covers the following:
-Introduction to Ecology (basic vocabulary and succession)
-Energy Flow in Ecosystems (primary productivity, trophic levels, producers/consumers, energy pyramids, biomass)
- Population Growth (dispersion, density, exponential vs. logistic growth, determining growth rate, density-independent vs. density dependent factors, r-strategists vs. K-strategists).
- Biogeochemical Cycles: Water, Carbon, Nitrogen
-Communities: Niche- fundamental vs. realized, invasive species, symbiosis + coevolution.
✽✽ Practice Sheets (Classwork and Homework) include: ✽✽
-What is an Ecosystem? -
-Primary Succession Cut-n-Paste Timeline
-Ecological Succession of a Pond
-Energy Flow in Ecosystems
-Food Web Visual Vibes
-Population Growth
-Population Growth and Data
-Predation or Starvation?
Drawing Biogeochemical Cycles
Biogeochemical Cycles and You
Human Impact PowerPoint Presentation
Worksheets: Invasive Species, Climate Change and Agriculture, Dams
Rubric: Invasive Species Project
Deforestation online lesson
✽✽ Interactive Notebook Activities ✽✽
There are 15+ activities to choose from- designed for INBs or can be used as independent projects.
**ATLAS Inquiry**
3-4 days worth of inquiry activities (optional) that satisfy model based learning.
✽✽ Ecology Web Quests ✽✽
Human Population Growth Web Quest
**Study Tool**
✽✽ Quizzes ✽✽
5 Quizzes: 3 open note quizzes (can be modified to suit your style) + 2 quizzes
1 Unit Test (multiple choice and open response)
✽✽ Viewing Guides for your Viewing Pleasure! ✽✽
Bonus! 2 Viewing Guides (Parasites: Eating Us Alive; Cane Toads: An Unnatural History)
✽✽ All About Biomes! ✽✽
Biome Notes (world biomes); Biome Mapping Across North America, and Biodiversity Bingo.
➩ ➩ Looking for the entire curriculum? You can get this unit along with several others in my Big Biology Curriculum Bundle
Related NGSS Standards:
- HS-LS2-1: Use mathematical and/or computational representations (graphs, charts, histograms, and population changes gathered from simulations or historical data sets) to support explanations of factors that affect carrying capacity of ecosystems at different scales.
- HS-LS2-2: Use mathematical representations to support and revise explanations based on evidence about factors affecting biodiversity and populations in ecosystems of different scales.
- HS-LS2-3: Construct and revise an explanation based on evidence for the cycling of matter and flow of energy in aerobic and anaerobic conditions.
- HS-LS2-4: Use mathematical representations to support claims for the cycling of matter and flow of energy among organisms in an ecosystem.
- HS-LS2-5: Develop a model (simulations and mathematical models) to illustrate the role of photosynthesis and cellular respiration in the cycling of carbon among the biosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and geosphere.
- HS-LS2-6: Evaluate the claims, evidence, and reasoning that the complex interactions in ecosystems maintain relatively consistent numbers and types of organisms in stable conditions, but changing conditions may result in a new ecosystem.
- HS-LS2-7: Design, evaluate, and refine a solution for reducing the impacts of human activities on the environment and biodiversity.
- HS-LS2-8: Evaluate the evidence for the role of group behavior on individual and species’ chances to survive and reproduce.
- HS-LS4-6: Create or revise a simulation to test a solution to mitigate adverse impacts of human activity on biodiversity.
Vanessa Jason Biology Roots
For single classroom only; not to be shared publicly (do not create publicly accessible links).
Copying for more than one teacher, classroom, department, school, or district is prohibited. Failure to comply is a violation of the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act).
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Hi Charla, this has been edited by both teachers and a proofreader. I’d be very interested to know exactly where you found the typos. I almost feel like this feedback was not intended for this product because what you are saying about the notes does not make sense, either. The notes do have a fill in option but they are two-column in this bundle. I have used this for years in my on-level students in MA as well as my honors classes and it has provided. Please feel free to reach out with those specific typos so I can help. Thanks, Charla!
