6th Grade Science Guide

6.4: Ecosystems 3 Dimensions & Progressions

Unit 5

Activity: Oh Deer

Objective

Overview

Materials

● Large open space ● Lesson plan

● Students will be able to explain carrying capacity and limiting factors in an ecosystem.

● This activity allows students to model population fuctuations based on availability of food, shelter and water.

Formative Assessment: 6.4.2 Formative Assessment

Activity: How stable is your food web?

Objective

Overview

Materials

● Recognize a food web as a system, and describe a food web in terms of its components and its interactions. ● Provide examples of how a healthy ecosystem is one in which multiple species of different types are each able to meet their needs in a relatively stable web of life. ● Design and use a simple model to test cause and

● students design and use a simple model to test cause

● Lesson Plan

and effect relationships or interactions concerning the functioning of a marine food web, ranking their hypothetical ecosystems according to their stability when faced with a natural or man-made disturbance.

effect relationships or interactions concerning the functioning of a marine food web.

Activity: Wolves of Yellowstone

Objective

Overview

Materials

● Lesson Plan

● Students will understand how human impact changes an ecosystem.

● This set of activities, inspired by the Wolves of Yellowstone | EARTH A New Wild video, introduces students to the ecological impact of wolf reintroduction and the controversy surrounding the wolves, allowing students to