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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 4 Classwork Homework SFP Conclusion due Monday, February 12 SFP Formal Report due Feb. 20 • Media Center: Science Fair Project

  6. Tuesday, February 5 Classwork Homework SFP Conclusion due Monday, February 12 SFP Formal Report due Feb. 20 • Media Center: Science Fair Project

  7. Wednesday, February 6 “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” Mother Teresa Classwork Homework Ecosystem Art due Friday SFP Conclusion due Monday, February 12 SFP Formal Report due Feb. 20 • Video: Populations and Communities • Notes: SpeciesEcosystems • Ecosystem Art

  8. Thursday, February 7 “There is no remedy for love but to love more.”Henry David Thoreau Classwork Homework SFP Conclusion due Wednesday, February 13 – LAST Logbook check!!! SFP Formal Report due Feb. 20 • Notes: Studying Populations • Ecosystem Art

  9. Friday, February 8 “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”Robert A. Heinlein Classwork Homework SFP Conclusion due Wednesday, February 13 – LAST Logbook check!!! SFP Formal Report due Feb. 20 • Glue Ecosystem Art • Counting Turtles p 689 Happy Birthday Kyle R and Branden K!!

  10. Monday, February 11 “Love one another and you will be happy; it is as simple and as difficult as that.” – Michael Leunig Classwork Homework Mix and Match Ecology – Story due Friday SFP Conclusion due Wednesday, February 13 – LAST Logbook check!!! SFP Formal Report due Feb. 20 • Notes: Interactions Among Living Things • Mix and Match Ecology: Symbiosis

  11. Tuesday, February 12The 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 Mix and Match Ecology due Friday SFP Conclusion due Wednesday, February 13 – LAST Logbook check!!! SFP Formal Report due Feb. 20 • Good Buddies • Mix and Match Stories

  12. Wednesday, February 13Happy Birthday Travis K!!! “There is only one happiness in life—to love and be loved.” – George Sands Classwork Homework Mix and Match Ecology due Friday SFP Formal Report due Feb. 20 – NEXT WED!!!!! • Computer Lab: Science Fair Project • LAST and FINAL Logbook check today!!!!!

  13. Thursday, February 14 "All you need is love."John Lennon Classwork Homework Mix and Match Ecology due tomorrow! SFP Formal Report due Feb. 20 – NEXT WED!!!!! • Energy Flow in Ecosystems • Any stories ready to read?

  14. Friday, February 15Black History Month at 8amHappy Birthday Taylor G!! Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. Martin Luther King Jr Classwork Homework SFP Formal Report due Feb. 20 – NEXT WED!!!!! • Read stories and turn in! • A Georgia Forest Food Web

  15. Wednesday, February 20Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase.Martin Luther King Jr. Classwork Homework No homework • Turn in SFP: Formal Report • Guest Speaker: Puneeth Kumar from SRS

  16. Wednesday, February 20Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase.Martin Luther King Jr. Classwork – 6th period Homework No homework • Turn in SFP: Formal Report • PQ5R chapter 21-1

  17. Thursday, February 21Freedom is never given; it is won. ~A. Philip Randolph Classwork Homework Review Worksheet – ALL of it!! • Arctic Food Web • “Bullying” by Mr. Hromyak

  18. Friday, February 22 If there is no struggle, there is no progress.  ~Frederick Douglass Classwork Homework Test Tuesday, Feb. 26 • HW on YOUR desk • Case Study: Alaskan Coast Populations • Desert Food Web

  19. Friday, February 22 (6th period) If there is no struggle, there is no progress.  ~Frederick Douglass Classwork Homework Test Tuesday, Feb. 26 • Test Review WS • Desert Food Web • Case Study: Alaskan Coast Populations

  20. Monday, February 25 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”

  21. Tuesday, February 26 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

  22. Wednesday, February 27 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

  23. Thursday, February 28 (1st and 2nd) “Where there is love there is life.” – Mohandas K. Gandhi Classwork Homework Biome Chart due Fri. • Science Fair • Venn Diagrams: Biomes

  24. Thursday, February 28 (5th and 6th) “Where there is love there is life.” – Mohandas K. Gandhi Classwork Homework Biome Chart due Fri. Wb pages 77-83 • Venn Diagrams: See board • Workbook pages 77-83

  25. Friday, March 1 (1ST,2nd , and 5th) “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 • Deciduous Forest Q & A

  26. 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

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