Description
Your students will love learning about the interactions across ecosystems with these engaging activities. This comprehensive 5E packet on ecological relationships is specially designed to align with the NGSS Middle School MS-LS2-2 standard “construct an explanation that predicts patterns of interactions among organisms across multiple ecosystems”.
Easy to follow and fun to use and teach with. You don’t have to add anything.
Topics Covered
- Interactions
- Predator Prey
- Symbiosis
- Commensalism
- Parasitism
Here’s what’s included in this packet:
- Engagement activity including an editable I CAN objective statement
- Explore – science station lab (see below)
- Explain – fully editable powerpoint
- Elaborate -editable student choice board
- Evaluate – assessment
- Notes
Science Stations
â–º Interpret It – students are shown data about wolf and moose numbers spanning a number of decades. They are asked to interpret the graph and draw conclusions from the data.
â–º Read It – here the students read about the amazing protection racket that exists between the Drongo bird and meerkats.
â–º Watch It – students watch a short video explaining ecological relationships and answer questions related to the video.
â–ºExplain It – students are given photos showing some of the ways in which animals and plants engage with each other. They must explain their answers to the questions on the pictures.
â–ºWrite It – At this station students write about interactions between organisms in their own area.
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