BPS Elementary Science Exemplars Project
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| Grade: | Five |
| Topic: | Populations and Ecosystems |
| Instructional Materials: | Populations & Ecosystems (DW) |
| *Special Instructions: | Students should be allowed to use their textbook, "Populations and Ecosystems" or other reference material to answer this question. For hand written versions, the provided template can be used or the students can be allowed to draw their food web freehand. Students may identify organisms in their Food Web by name if they are not comfortable drawing the organism. |
| MA LS (96 version): | Organisms and Environments: Provide evidence that all organisms use some basic chemical building blocks, including water and oxygen. Observe that each kind of organism has special living requirements, and each has its own way to get the energy and nutrients it needs. Observe that green plants can make their own food from sunlight; animals consume plants or other organisms for their food. |
| MA LS (01 version): | Grade 3-5 Topic Energy
and Living Things: Describe how energy derived from the sun is transferred within a food
chain from producers to consumers to decomposers. Grade 3-5 Topic Adaptations of Living Things: Give examples of how change in the environment has caused some plants and animals to die or move to new locations. |
| BPS LS: | Organism can be classified by functions they serve in an ecosystem: producers, consumers or decomposers |
| Technology Connection: | Students use a template for Inspiration. (See the templates section.) |
*The teacher should encourage students to elaborate, give more than the minimum, and strive for a Level 4.
A student response correctly giving the minimum number of responses or details is a Level 3.
In order to achieve a Level 4, a student must go above and beyond what is asked. For example, the student gives more than the required minimum or makes additional connections.
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Draw and label a food web that includes at least two food chains. (Link up the food chains in at least two ways.) In each food chain:
1. Describe your food web. Discuss producers, consumers, and decomposers.
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2. A disease kills everything named in the gray oval. Discuss how this effects the ecosystem.
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