Need ideas to teach students about organisms’ interactions with living and nonliving components of their ecosystems? Look no further!
1. 🌳 Engage/Explore: Outdoor Scavenger Hunt
Take your students outside to observe some real live ecosystems in action! Sign up for the Science Penguin Free Resource Library to access the file.
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2. 🦀 Explore/Explain: Tide Pool Interactions Notebook
Classify tidepool interactions as with living or nonliving components of the ecosystem and learn some pretty cool information about hermit crabs! This is a special activity just for subscribers!
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3. 🐜 Elaborate: In the Zone
Place hula hoops in four very different areas at your campus. Study these different zones to identify how how organisms interact with living and nonliving components of the ecosystem.
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4. 🧩 Review: Sorting Relays
Have some fun with Science Sorting Relays! Each topic includes 27 sorting cards, sorting signs, and an answer key.
The cards have vocabulary terms, images, and brief descriptions so they are perfect for a timed competition. I have included directions, additional ideas, and alternative uses in the file.
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5. ❓ Evaluate: Ecosystem Interactions Test Prep Task Cards
No easy breezy task cards here! This set has 20 multiple choice task cards that ask students to show their understanding of how organisms live and survive in their ecosystem by interacting with the living and nonliving components.
These rigorous questions require students to analyze and interpret information to construct reasonable explanations.
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6. 💬 Bonus Idea
Here’s an idea to use with any ecosystem. Let students pick an ecosystem, research, learn, and record!
7. Video
We love this educational video from our friend, Mad Garden Science.
Standards
TEKS 5.9A observe the way organisms live and survive in their ecosystem by interacting with the living and nonliving components
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