DLI 5th Grade Guide

GRADE5 SCIENCE

McGraw Hill Unit 2: Ecosystems

Module: Matter in Ecosystems Lesson 1: Plant Survival

Lesson 2: Interactions of Living Things

Module: Energy in Ecosystems

Lesson 3: Energy Transfer in Ecosystems

Organisms in Ecosystems

communicate like a scientist.

Success Criteria: I know I am successful when I use the words consumer, producer, and decomposer to explain the direction of energy transfer among organisms. I am learning about food chains and food webs so that I can explain how the path that energy and nutrients follow. Success Criteria: I will know I am successful when I can read a diagram and write a paragraph about how food chains and food webs function. I am learning how to think like a Wildlife Conservationist so that I can know the importance of maintaining the natural balance of food chains and food webs within ecosystems. Success Criteria: I’ll know when I have learned it when I can write an informative paragraph on why deciding to help conserve wildlife an important yet diffcult decision to act on, by presenting evidence to support my point of view. I am learning how the food that animals eat was once energy from the sun by describing the transfer of energy through an ecosystem.

Can be done in ELA block

Explain

25 min. Learning Intention:

None

98-99

Lesson: Food Chains and FoodWebs Can be done in ELA block

Elaborate

30 min. Learning Intention:

None

102 103

Lesson: What Does a Wildlife Conservationist Do? Can be done in ELA block

Evaluate

20 min. Learning Intention:

none

104 105

Lesson: Explain the Phenomenon