3. Student Learning Map

  • Topic:How Living Things Interact with Their Environment
  • Subject(s):Science
  • Days:20
  • Grade(s):4
Key Learning: Living things and nonliving things within an ecosystem affect each other. Living things are also dependent upon each other for survival.
Unit Essential Question(s):
 
 
How do living and nonliving things within an ecosystem affect each other?
   
Concept: Understanding Ecosystems G.1.2.6 (CS-MC) G.1.2.7 (CS-MC) G.2.2.1 (AA- MC, SR) G.2.2.3 (CS-MC)
Concept: Energy Transfers in Ecosystems G.1.2.1 (CS-MC) G.1.2.4 (CS- MC) G.2.2.1 (AA- MC, SR) G.2.2.3 (CS-MC)
Concept:
Lesson Essential Question(s):

a) How do the living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem interact? b) What is the definition of population and community? (A)
a) How does water affect an ecosystem? b) How do biotic and abitoic factors affect ecosystems? c) How does climate affect ecosystems? (A)
a) What are the basic needs of living things? b) How do adaptations help living things meet their needs? (A)
a) What are the effects of erosion? b) How do humans use resources? c) What are the positive and negative ways that humans affect ecosystems? (A)
Lesson Essential Question(s):

a) How do living things use the energy from sunlight? b) How do living things relate to each other? (A)
a) How do consumers depend on other living things? b) How does energy move through food chains and food webs? (A)
a) Compare living things of long ago with those of today. b) How have living things died out, changed, and stayed the same throughout Earth's history. (A)
Lesson Essential Question(s):
Additional Information:

AA- Annually Assessed, CS- Content Sampled (Assessed Every 3 Years), MC- Multiple Choice, SR- Short Response, ER- Extended Response, * Means FCAT-Tested Vocabulary Lesson Planner Pgs.452A-452B,494A-494B Lab Manual Pgs.167-187 Assessment Guide Pgs.85-96 FCAT Practice Pgs.49-56 *See Attached Documents for Addtional Resources

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Vocabulary Report

  • Environment* -
  • Producer* -
  • Ecosystem* -
  • Consumer* -
  • Herbivore* -
  • Population* -
  • Carnivore* -
  • Community* -
  • Omnivore -
  • Biotic -
  • Decomposer -
  • Abiotic -
  • Diversity -
  • Habitat* -
  • Niche -
  • Basic Needs -
  • Food Chain* -
  • Adaptation* -
  • Pollution* -
  • Prey* -
  • Habitat -
  • Predator* -
  • Food Web* -
  • Restoration -
  • Energy -
  • Pyramid* -
  • Fossil* -
  • Extinction -