In this section, students will research a biome and present their findings to the class.
What types of ecosystems are there?
Typically students spend several class periods researching, preparing, and presenting. Other groups take notes and give feedback to presenters. After everyone has presented, answer questions and clarify any items missed by the groups. Then, quiz students on essential features of the major biomes of Earth.
Learning Domain: Crosscutting Concepts
Standard: Students understand a system is a group of related parts that make up a whole and can carry out functions its individual parts cannot. They also describe a system in terms of its components and their interactions.
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Learning Domain: Crosscutting Concepts
Standard: Students understand a system is a group of related parts that make up a whole and can carry out functions its individual parts cannot. They also describe a system in terms of its components and their interactions.
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Learning Domain: Crosscutting Concepts
Standard: Students understand a system is a group of related parts that make up a whole and can carry out functions its individual parts cannot. They also describe a system in terms of its components and their interactions.
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Learning Domain: Crosscutting Concepts
Standard: Students recognize natural objects and observable phenomena exist from the very small to the immensely large. They use standard units to measure and describe physical quantities such as mass, time, temperature, and volume.
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Learning Domain: Crosscutting Concepts
Standard: Students recognize natural objects and observable phenomena exist from the very small to the immensely large. They use standard units to measure and describe physical quantities such as mass, time, temperature, and volume.
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Learning Domain: Crosscutting Concepts
Standard: Students recognize natural objects and observable phenomena exist from the very small to the immensely large. They use standard units to measure and describe physical quantities such as mass, time, temperature, and volume.
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Learning Domain: Earth and Space Science
Standard: Four major Earth systems interact. Rainfall helps to shape the land and affects the types of living things found in a region. Water, ice, wind, organisms, and gravity break rocks, soils, and sediments into smaller pieces and move them around.
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Learning Domain: Earth and Space Science
Standard: Four major Earth systems interact. Rainfall helps to shape the land and affects the types of living things found in a region. Water, ice, wind, organisms, and gravity break rocks, soils, and sediments into smaller pieces and move them around.
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Learning Domain: Earth and Space Science
Standard: Most of Earth's water is in the ocean, and much of the Earth's freshwater is in glaciers or underground.
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Learning Domain: Engineering, Technology, and the Application of Science
Standard: Research on a problem should be carried out before beginning to design a solution. Testing a solution involves investigating how well it performs under a range of likely conditions.
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Learning Domain: Engineering, Technology, and the Application of Science
Standard: Research on a problem should be carried out before beginning to design a solution. Testing a solution involves investigating how well it performs under a range of likely conditions.
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Learning Domain: Engineering, Technology, and the Application of Science
Standard: Research on a problem should be carried out before beginning to design a solution. Testing a solution involves investigating how well it performs under a range of likely conditions.
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Learning Domain: Life Science
Standard: Food provides animals with the materials and energy they need for body repair, growth, warmth, and motion. Plants acquire material for growth chiefly from air, water, and process matter, and obtain energy from sunlight, which is used to maintain conditions necessary for survival.
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Learning Domain: Life Science
Standard: The food of almost any animal can be traced back to plants. Organisms are related in food webs in which some animals eat plants for food and other animals eat the animals that eat plants, while decomposers restore some materials back to the soil.
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Learning Domain: Life Science
Standard: Matter cycles between the air and soil and among organisms as they live and die.
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Learning Domain: Physical Science
Standard: Plants capture energy from sunlight which can be used as fuel or food. Stored energy in food or fuel can be converted to useable energy.
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Learning Domain: Physical Science
Standard: Plants capture energy from sunlight which can be used as fuel or food. Stored energy in food or fuel can be converted to useable energy.
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Learning Domain: Science and Engineering Practices
Standard: Students use prior knowledge to describe and define simple design problems that can be solved through the development of an object, tool, process, or system. They include several criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.
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Learning Domain: Science and Engineering Practices
Standard: Students use prior knowledge to describe and define simple design problems that can be solved through the development of an object, tool, process, or system. They include several criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.
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Learning Domain: Science and Engineering Practices
Standard: Students use prior knowledge to describe and define simple design problems that can be solved through the development of an object, tool, process, or system. They include several criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.
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Learning Domain: Science and Engineering Practices
Standard: Students critique the scientific explanations or solutions proposed by peers by citing relevant evidence about the natural and designed world.
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Learning Domain: Science and Engineering Practices
Standard: Students critique the scientific explanations or solutions proposed by peers by citing relevant evidence about the natural and designed world.
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Learning Domain: Science and Engineering Practices
Standard: Students critique the scientific explanations or solutions proposed by peers by citing relevant evidence about the natural and designed world.
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