ECOSYSTEMS!

Bell Work 2/10/2015

HOW do you obtain empirical evidence?

List three ways that you think you

could obtain reliable data

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Pandora Web Activity debrief

Abiotic factors NEWSELA

Announcements:

Check your Celly app and look for Wampler science if you haven’t already added it!

Today’s Learning Target:

Today I am reading about abiotic factors so that I can explain how they affect ecosystems.I know that I’ll have it when I can explain how physical factors affect populations while citing information from an article

NEW UNIT:

Construct an argument supported by empirical evidence that changes to physical or biological components of an ecosystemaffect populations

AND…

Evaluate competing designs for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services

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Biotic factors

Forest Habitats Freshwaters Grasslands

Wetlands

Marine/Ocean

Arctic Tundra Desert Mountain

Student Examples

PandoraLet’s check our learning from our .gif activity.

You will have a picture with a plant or animal from Pandora on it.

You will need to determine what biotic factor (producer? Primary consumer?...etc) the organism on your sheet is

Once you have determined what it would be, compare the cards that other people at your table have. Begin to establish relationships.

When relationships have been established, we will go to the board 1 level at a time, drawing relationships as we go. I will need one photographer to make a gif of the class display (you may of course make a gif of your own for your own learning)

5 minutes

End

Abiotic FactorsRead the article about abiotic factors affecting populations in China.

WRITE down:

1.) The main argument

2.) Every fact that the author used that was supported by empirical data.

3.) Annotate within Newsela or in your notebook, be ready for discussion tomorrow.