Target Student Performance
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Lesson 5- Ecosystems Services and Posttest (students as explainers) |
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Activity 5.1: Introduction to Ecosystem Products and Services |
Students explain how humans change matter cycling and energy flow in ecosystems to produce products and services. |
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Activity 5.2: Ecosystem Products and Services Jigsaw |
Students explain how humans manage matter cycling and energy flow in specific ecosystems to produce products that they need (beef, corn, forest). |
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Students use posters to explain matter cycling, energy flow, and ecosystem services in a different ecosystem. |
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Students use posters to explain matter cycling, energy flow, ecosystem services, and effects of disturbances in a different ecosystem. |
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Activity 5.4: Ecosystems Unit Posttest |
Students show their end-of unit proficiencies for the overall unit goal: Questioning, investigating, and explaining how carbon cycles and energy flows in ecosystems. |
Activity 5.3a: Ecosystem Posters
Activity 5.3b: Ecosystem PostersNGSS Performance Expectations
High School
- Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics. HS-LS2-2. Use mathematical representations to support and revise explanations based on evidence about factors affecting biodiversity and populations in ecosystems at different scales.
- Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics. HS-LS2-5: Develop a model to illustrate the role of photosynthesis and cellular respiration in the cycling of carbon among the biosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and geosphere.
- Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics. HS-LS2-6: Evaluate claims, evidence, and reasoning that the complex interactions in ecosystems maintain relatively consistent numbers and types of organisms in stable conditions, but changing conditions may result in a new ecosystem.
Middle School
- Matter and Energy in Organisms and Ecosystems. MS-LS2-4. Construct an argument supported by empirical evidence that changes to physical or biological components of an ecosystem affect populations.
- Earth’s Systems. MS-ESS2-1. Develop a model to describe the cycling of earth’s materials and the flow of energy that drives this process.