Overview
Students learn about how humans depend on ecosystem products and services to survive and how we manage ecosystems to provide products and services that we want, as well as how increasing one product or service can decrease others. They develop posters about different ecosystems and complete the unit posttest.
Guiding Question
How do humans change ecosystems to provide products and services that we need?
Activities in this Lesson
- Activity 5.1: Introduction to Ecosystem Products and Services (40 minutes)
- Activity 5.2: Ecosystem Products and Services Jigsaw (50 minutes)
- Activity 5.3a or 5.3b: Ecosystem Posters (40 minutes)
- Activity 5.4: Ecosystems Unit Posttest (20 minutes)
Unit Map