Welcome to our Study of Ecosystems
Points of Focus:
Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers
Interactions of Organisms
Relationships of Organisms
Biotic and Abiotic Factors
Environmental Impact of Organisms
Key Concepts:
- All life forms, including humans, are part of a global food chain in which food is supplied by plants, which need light to produce food.
- Ecosystems continually change with time as environmental factors and populations of organisms change.
Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers
Interactions of Organisms
Relationships of Organisms
Biotic and Abiotic Factors
Environmental Impact of Organisms
Key Concepts:
- All life forms, including humans, are part of a global food chain in which food is supplied by plants, which need light to produce food.
- Ecosystems continually change with time as environmental factors and populations of organisms change.
Daily Warm-Up
- Content Area Warm-Up
- Fluency Reads within Content (select text page/paragraph)
- Content Area Hunk and Chunk Hunt (with same paragraph, write words on scrap paper)
- Content Area Read a Little, Make a Note: Main Idea (run finger under topic sentence, count the detail sentences, reread the conclusion statement)
- Text Features routine