This guide to OpenSciEd unit 7.5: Ecosystem Dynamics and Biodiversity includes: Lesson …
This guide to OpenSciEd unit 7.5: Ecosystem Dynamics and Biodiversity includes: Lesson pacing; and Assessment guidance. School districts that use The Teacher Clarity Playbook by Fisher and Frey Playbook will benefit from using this guide. Each lesson is labeled by a number and letter (ie: 3a) and contains the original resource three-dimensional standards as Lesson Level Performance Expectations. We have broken those PEs into student-friendly Learning Intentions and Success Criteria, which can be posted on boards or digital slides and used for assessment criteria.
This curriculum guide contains pacing, instruction, prior knowledge, and assessment guidance to …
This curriculum guide contains pacing, instruction, prior knowledge, and assessment guidance to accompany the OpenSciEd unit 7.5 Ecosystem Dynamics and Biodiversity. For schools who use Fisher and Frey's The Teacher Clarity Playbook, you'll find student-friendly learning intentions and success criteria for every lesson (indicated by a number and letter, ie: 4b), drawn from the OSE three dimensional performance expectations. These can be posted on slides or boards in classrooms to make learning visible for students and help design assessment criteria.
This curriculum guide contains pacing, instruction, and assessment guidance to accompany the …
This curriculum guide contains pacing, instruction, and assessment guidance to accompany the OpenSciEd unit 7.6 Earth Resources & Human Impact. For schools who use Fisher and Frey's The Teacher Clarity Playbook, you'll find student-friendly learning intentions and success criteria for every lesson, drawn from the OSE three dimensional performance expectations. These can be posted on slides or boards in classrooms to make learning visible for students and help design assessment criteria.
This activity is a field investigation where students will make observations on …
This activity is a field investigation where students will make observations on a chosen location every two weeks for the period of one school year. They will record their observations using a digital camera and a nature journal.
This activity is an introduction to setting up a composting worm bin …
This activity is an introduction to setting up a composting worm bin in the classroom. It is part of a yearlong study on the interaction and influences that living system have on each other.
Use these guides in accompaniment with the Netflix Our Planet series episodes …
Use these guides in accompaniment with the Netflix Our Planet series episodes to help shape supplementary discussions and activities within your 5th-12th grade learning environment. Includes many discussion prompts and activities that can accompany the topic of each episode.
In this field exploration, student teams (consisting of 3 students) will investigate …
In this field exploration, student teams (consisting of 3 students) will investigate whetherincandescent, fluorescent or a no light situation will attract the most nocturnal insects.
Have we overstepped Mother Earth's boundaries? What are the consequences? In this …
Have we overstepped Mother Earth's boundaries? What are the consequences? In this video segment adapted from Haskell Indian Nations University, hear a Native perspective on our relationship with the natural environment.
The PFAS Interactive Data Viewer is a mapping tool that incorporates datasets …
The PFAS Interactive Data Viewer is a mapping tool that incorporates datasets from several DNR programs to show locations throughout Wisconsin that have been impacted by PFAS.
Information included in the PFAS Interactive Data Viewer include locations with known PFAS contamination and whether clean up has been completed; results from testing municipal drinking water for PFAS; locations with PFAS-related fish and game consumption advisories; and waterbodies throughout Wisconsin sampled for PFAS during targeted or routine monitoring.
These data may not reflect current PFAS levels at specific locations.
In this lesson, students will compare weather and climate, explain patterns over …
In this lesson, students will compare weather and climate, explain patterns over time and make observations by creating a rain gauge.
NGSS: 3-ESS2-1
Time: 55 minutes
Materials: laminated patterns in nature photos (photos included), thermometer for the class, duct tape, data sheet, rulers, sharpies, scissors, empty soda bottles for rain gauages, pebbles
In this activity, students will learn how water can be polluted by …
In this activity, students will learn how water can be polluted by algal blooms. They will grow algae with different concentrations of fertilizer or nutrients and analyze their results as environmental engineers working to protect a local water resource.
In this media-rich, self-paced lesson, students explore the industries that produce and …
In this media-rich, self-paced lesson, students explore the industries that produce and rely on advanced technology and assess how their goals and interests may make them well suited for a career in this cutting-edge sector.
This activity is an opportunity for students to explore civil government and …
This activity is an opportunity for students to explore civil government and to present what they have learned about electric power generation in a persuasive manner
Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum activity/Introductory Ecology course. Students build and manipulate spreadsheets …
Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum activity/Introductory Ecology course. Students build and manipulate spreadsheets to model and graph populations using the Lotka-Volterra predator-prey equations.
This activity is a simulation that illustrates how population sizes are affected …
This activity is a simulation that illustrates how population sizes are affected by predator-prey relationships and competitive interactions among prey.
Project WET: Water Education Today is dedicated to solving critical environmental challenges …
Project WET: Water Education Today is dedicated to solving critical environmental challenges by teaching the world about water. We do this by providing hands-on, science-based water education resources to formal and non-formal educators around the world. These resources encourage responsible environmental stewardship and promote meaningful action to address environmental challenges, climate change, social justice, and sustainability.
Biodiversity is a shortened form of the term "biological diversity." The entire …
Biodiversity is a shortened form of the term "biological diversity." The entire spectrum of life forms and the many ecological processes support them. Wisconsin is blessed with abundant biodiversity. Located at the junction of the eastern deciduous forest, northern boreal forest and temperate grasslands, we have a wealth of species and natural communities.
Approximately 1,800 species of native plants and close to 700 species of native vertebrates have been identified in Wisconsin. In addition, there are thousands of species of non-vascular plants and invertebrates. These pages highlight the uncommon and rare species, natural communities, geological features and essential habitat areas throughout Wisconsin.
Students become familiar with the online Renewable Energy Living Lab interface and …
Students become familiar with the online Renewable Energy Living Lab interface and access its real-world solar energy data to evaluate the potential for solar generation in various U.S. locations. They become familiar with where the most common sources of renewable energy are distributed across the U.S. Through this activity, students and teachers gain familiarity with the living lab's GIS graphic interface and query functions, and are exposed to the available data in renewable energy databases, learning how to query to find specific information for specific purposes. The activity is intended as a "training" activity prior to conducting activities such as The Bright Idea activity, which includes a definitive and extensive end product (a feasibility plan) for students to create.
Students build on their understanding and feel for flow rates, as gained …
Students build on their understanding and feel for flow rates, as gained from the associated Faucet Flow Rate activity, to estimate the flow rate of a local river. The objective is to be able to relate laboratory experiment results to the environment. They use the U.S. Geological Survey website (http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/rt) to determine the actual flow rate data for their river, and compare their estimates to the actual flow rate. For this activity to be successful, choose a nearby river and take a field trip or show a video so students gain a visual feel for the flow of the nearby river.
Summative Assessment for Ecology Unit Essential Outcomes: 1. Describe the concept of …
Summative Assessment for Ecology Unit Essential Outcomes: 1. Describe the concept of adaptation through the process of Natural Selection 2. How do adaptations enhance the survival of a particular species? 3. What is the carrying capacity of an ecosystem and what factors limit the size of a population? 4. How do short-term changes in the biotic/abiotic factors of an ecosystem influence population of a particular species? What happens if the species cannot adapt to these short-term. changes?
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