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Unit Overview – Interactions Among Living Things

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. Monday, February 3 Classwork Homework SFP Results due Thurs., 2/6 SFP Conclusion due Tuesday, February 11 SFP Formal Report due Feb. 19 (10 bonus points – Feb. 14) Media Center, Thurs, Mon, Tues • The Human Family Tree • 10 notes Photosynthesis is the way plants make food. Which of the following are always needed for photosynthesis?water, light, chlorophyll, carbon dioxide water, light, flowers, oxygen water, roots, stems, leaves water, light, fertilizer, oxygen

  6. Tuesday, February 4“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”Henry David Thoreau Classwork Homework SFP Results due Thurs., 2/6 SFP Conclusion due Tuesday, February 11 SFP Formal Report due Feb. 19 (10 bonus points – Feb. 14) Media Center, Thurs, Mon, Tues • Video: Populations and Communities • Notes: 20-1 – Living Things and the Environment • Ecosystem Art What pair of cell structures are found in plant cells, function in protecting the cell and making food, and are not found in animal cells? cell membrane and ribosomes cell wall and chloroplasts mitochondria and a nucleus flagella and Golgi bodies

  7. Wednesday, February 5 “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” Mother TeresaHappy Birthday Dennis! Classwork Homework • Notes: Studying Populations • Ecosystem Art SFP Results due Thurs., 2/6 SFP Conclusion due Tuesday, February 11 SFP Formal Report due Feb. 19 (10 bonus points – Feb. 14) Media Center, Thurs, Mon, Tues A certain kind of cell produces a substance that breaks down proteins so they can be absorbed by the body. What body system is the cell MOST LIKELY a part of? the skeletal system the nervous system the digestive system the circulatory system

  8. Thursday, February 6 “There is no remedy for love but to love more.”Henry David Thoreau Classwork Homework • Library Day SFP Conclusion due Tuesday, February 11 SFP Formal Report due Feb. 19 Which is a hypothesis?Five earthworms died when the soil became too dry. Earthworms have a mucous-covered outer surface. Heavy rain causes earthworms to move above ground. What will happen if an earthworm is cut in two?

  9. Friday, February 7 Happy Birthday Jordan T. – next week “Random Acts of Kindness Week” “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”Robert A. Heinlein Classwork Homework • NB: Limiting Factors – “Oh Deer!” Farmers who grow corn plants want the plants that produce the most ears of corn and are most resistant to insects and disease. What process would a farmer use to produce corn plants with these desired traits? crop rotation natural selection selective breeding asexual reproduction

  10. Monday, February 10 “Love one another and you will be happy; it is as simple and as difficult as that.” – Michael Leunig Classwork Homework SFP Conclusion due Tuesday, February 11 – LAST Logbook check!!! SFP Formal Report due Feb. 19 • Library Day

  11. Tuesday, February 11The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller Classwork Homework SFP Formal Report due Feb. 19 • Library Day

  12. Wednesday, February 19 “There is only one happiness in life—to love and be loved.” – George Sands Classwork Homework EcoARt! Due tomorrow Finish Outline SFP Final Report due Monday 2/24 • NB: “Interactions Among Living Things”- p 692 • EcoArt • Finish above for homework When water moves across the cell membrane, the process is called A. pollination. B. respiration. C. transfusion. D. osmosis.

  13. Thursday, February 20 "All you need is love."John Lennon Classwork Homework SFP Formal Report due Monday, Feb. 24 • Turn in EcoArt • Math –Analyzing Data p 695 • Good Buddies George's science class looked at living cells under a microscope. The students studied an organism that had many different kinds of cells, but each cell had a cell wall and nucleus. To which kingdom did this organism belong? A. Animals B. Protists C. Monerans D. Plants

  14. Scientists have spent many years studying the peppered moth, which is a species that has adapted its color from light to dark in reaction to environmental pollution. Which of the following line graphs represents the • data from the table? • A. • B. • C. • D.

  15. Friday, February 21 Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. Martin Luther King Jr Classwork Homework SFP Formal Report due MONDAY!!!!! • Mix and Match Ecology: Symbiosis • Read stories

  16. Monday, February 24Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase.Martin Luther King Jr. Classwork Homework WS – Enrich – ALL 4 sections! Not complete sentences NB Check #4 – Thursday - • Turn in SFP: Formal Report • Introduction to Food Webs • Start HW

  17. Tuesday, February 25I had no idea that history was being made.  I was just tired of giving up.  ~Rosa Parks Classwork Homework SRW #4 due Thursday • HW on desk • A Georgia Forest Food Web

  18. Wednesday, February 26Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself. Oprah Winfrey Classwork Homework SRQ #4 due tomorrow Finish Case Study • Case Study: Alaskan Coast Populations Which animal embryo grows inside a shell? A. whale B. rabbit C. mouse D. bird

  19. Thursday, February 27Freedom is never given; it is won.  ~A. Philip Randolph Classwork Homework • Arctic Food Web • Notebook Check #4 The body takes in oxygen through the A. brain. B. heart. C. lungs. D. stomach.

  20. Friday, February 28 If there is no struggle, there is no progress.  ~Frederick DouglassHappy Birthday Drew and Chase! Classwork Homework • Desert Food Web • Desert Animals A scientist found a fish fossil while digging in sedimentary rock. She carefully dug deeper and found a second fish fossil that had a slightly different skeletal structure than the first. What is the MOST LIKELY explanation for these slight differences? A. The fish species adapted over time. B. The fossils were buried at the same time. C. The first fossil was more damaged over time. D. One of the fossils was damaged during the dig.

  21. Monday, February 24 The time is always right to do what is right.  ~Martin Luther King, Jr. Classwork Homework Test Tomorrow: Chapter 20 – all Chapter 21 section1 • Test Review • Article: “The Real Cost of Cheap Food”

  22. Tuesday, February 25 Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself. Oprah Winfrey Classwork Homework Outline: p 728-739 due Fri. Biome Chart due Fri. • Test: Ecology • Outline: p 728-739 • Biome Chart

  23. Wednesday, February 26 I had no idea that history was being made.  I was just tired of giving up.  ~Rosa Parks Classwork Homework Biome Chart due Fri. QPAs next week; schedule coming soon! • Coniferous Forest video Q&A • Work on homework • Pass out Papers

  24. Thursday, February 27 (1st and 2nd) “Where there is love there is life.” – Mohandas K. Gandhi Classwork Homework Biome Chart due Fri. • Science Fair • Venn Diagrams: Biomes

  25. Friday, March 1 (1ST and 2nd) “You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.” Irish Proverb Classwork Homework QPA Review sheet up to 10 bonus points QPAs next week 3/6 – Wed. – Science 3/7 and 3/8 – Thurs.&Fri – ELA 3/11 – Mon. - Social Studies 3/12 – Tues - Math • Turn in homework • Deciduous Forest Q & A • Review Ecology Test

  26. Friday, February 28 “You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.” Irish Proverb Classwork Homework QPA Review sheet up to 10 bonus points Workbook pages 84-85, 271-274 QPAs next week 3/6 – Wed. – Science 3/7 and 3/8 – Thurs.&Fri – ELA 3/11 – Mon. - Social Studies 3/12 – Tues - Math • Turn in HW • Video Qs • Workbook pages 84-84 and 271 – 274 • Review Ecology Test

  27. Friday, March 1 (6th) “You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.” Irish Proverb Classwork Homework QPA Review sheet up to 10 bonus points Workbook pages 84-85, 271-274 QPAs next week 3/6 – Wed. – Science 3/7 and 3/8 – Thurs.&Fri – ELA 3/11 – Mon. - Social Studies 3/12 – Tues - Math • Motivational speaker

  28. Notes: Interactions Among Living Things • Mix and Match Ecology: Symbiosis • Good Buddies • Mix and Match Stories

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