Rotation 3

How Living Things are Connected

All living things share an ecosystem.

Day 1 - Monday

Key ConceptAcademic

VocabularyKey Activities

Plants are producers.

They make food

using a process

called photosynthesis

•light energy•producer•oxygen•chlorophyll•carbon dioxide•photosynthesis

(plant, leaf,

process)

1. Pre-test

2. Bridging Rotations 1 and 2, to

Rotation 3

3. Chlorophyll Extraction

4. Elodea Observation

5. Leaf,Observational Drawing

Drama

6. Children’s Zoo Investigation of

Plants and Animals

Day 2 - Tuesday

Key ConceptAcademic

VocabularyKey Activities

Animals are consumers.

They eat other living things to get energy.

•herbivore•carnivore•omnivore•consumer•diet

Review •producer

•(animal)

1.Cloze sentence vocabulary review2.Venn Diagram: similarities and differences of plants and animals3.Meet an herbivore and omnivore4.Diet Discovery at Children’s Zoo5.What do you eat? Match food with type of consumer.

Day 3 - Wednesday

Key ConceptAcademic

VocabularyKey Activities

A food chain shows the flow of food from one living thing to another.

•food chain•predator•prey

Review•producer•consumer•carnivore•omnivore•herbivore•light energy•diet

(dissect, hypothesis)

1.Meeting an owl (carnivore)2.Owl Pellet Inquiry•Dissect pellet•Sort and identify contents 1.Develop hypothesis about owl diet.3.Make a food chain illustrating owl, mouse, plant, sun

Day 4 - Thursday

Key ConceptAcademic

VocabularyKey Activities

Decomposers are an important part of the

food chain. They break down the waste of living

things and return it to the environment

in a useful way.

•decomposer•fungi•bacteria

Review•invertebrate•producers•consumers•light energy•predator•prey

(simulation)

1. Expand class food chain to include decomposers. Small groups correctly label food chain pictures2.Observe fungi and bacteria3. Field research - collect, observe and describe invertebrate decomposers.4. Food chain simulation - outside in Zoo environment 5. Individuals match pictures with appropriate food chain labeling and sequencing.

Day 5 - Friday

Key ConceptAcademic

VocabularyKey Activities

Living things are connected.

Humans are consumers in the food chain. What we use affects the

world’s many habitats.

•endangered species•habitat change•conservation•reduce•reuse•recycle

1.Take a zoo walk to investigate reasons some animal species are endangered.2.Identify some human activities that can endanger animal species.3. What can you do: reduce, reuse, recycle4.Review rotation 3 concepts5.Take post-test6. Zoo scrap book