2.3 Part 3 Ecoscenarios

Remember to write complete sentences when doing your bell work. Bell work 27 March 4, 2016 * You will need your composition books today.* Take out your bell work from yesterday, skip a line, write Friday, and answer the following questions: (Use your composition books and the textbooks). What four important findings came from Jane Goodall’s long term study of the chimps of Gombe? What can be learned from observational population studies? Explain what the following statement means: “A community is described by the organisms living in it; therefore, no two are exactly the same.” Remember to write complete sentences when doing your bell work.

1. Review Ecosystem Turn back in your notebooks and review the term ecosystems. What are the essential components in an ecosystem? Why do we study ecosystems? Where are ecosystems? How big is an ecosystem?

1. Review Ecosystem Turn back in your notebooks and review the term ecosystems. What are the essential components in an ecosystem? Populations of both plants and animals, and abiotic factors that complement the populations living there. Why do we study ecosystems? saving the ecosystem and saving endangered animals, such as polar bears. Are examples Where are ecosystems? Forest, the ocean, the Arctic, or a rain forest are defined as ecosystems, are there more? How big is an ecosystem?

Do we live in an ecosystem? 2. Studying Ecosystems Do we live in an ecosystem? Return to your definition of ecosystem in your notebooks

2. Studying Ecosystems If we are part of an ecosystem, how do we fit in with that definition?

If we are part of an ecosystem, how do we fit in with that definition? 2. Studying Ecosystems If we are part of an ecosystem, how do we fit in with that definition? We interact with our environment, we are a population, and all the organisms around us are part of our community.

What are some of the things we rely on from the ecosystem? 3. Ecosystem services Not only do we interact with our ecosystem, we rely on the ecosystem for a lot of things. What are some of the things we rely on from the ecosystem?

3. Ecosystem services What are some of the things we rely on from the ecosystem? food/crops Water, Shelter/lumber from trees, Recreation, Energy (coal, gas, oil), and Oxygen production All of these things that humans rely on from the ecosystem are called ecosystem services.

4. Purpose of studying an ecosystem Different ecosystems may provide different services. Name ecosystems you know about. Do you think the ecosystems you identified have similar populations, communities, abiotic factors, and ecosystem services?

4. Purpose of studying an ecosystem Different ecosystems may provide different services. Name ecosystems you know about. May suggest Forests, oceans, lakes, rivers, and so on Do you think the ecosystems you identified have similar populations, communities, abiotic factors, and ecosystem services?

5. Ecoscenarios The United States is a large, diverse country, containing many different ecosystems, including deserts and rain forests, mountains and valleys, lakes, rivers, streams, oceans, prairies, and tundras. There is not time for everyone to study all the different ecosystems. Instead, over the remainder of the course, each group will focus on a different ecosystem to become experts and make a report about it to share with the rest of the class. Each group will have an important role in making sure that the rest of the class learns about its ecosystem. In FOSS the collection of information about a particular ecosystem is a called an ecoscenario. This is not a scientific term, but a made-up word to describe the story of a place.

6. Scope of study Each team will research one ecosystem. Your first task will be to find out where the ecosystem is located, what major populations live there, and what abiotic factors influence the ecosystem. As we proceed through the course, we’ll occasionally stop and revisit your ecoscenario so you can focus in depth on different aspects of your ecosystem.

7. Focus Question 2.3 Put this at the top of a clean page. What are the defining characteristics of your ecosystem? Leave the rest of the page blank so you can return to it and answer it later.

Remember to write complete sentences when doing your bell work. Bell Work 28 March 8, 2016 * You will need your composition books today.* Take out a sheet of paper, put your name and class period in the top right hand corner, put Bell Work 28 in the top margin, skip a line, write Tuesday and answer the following questions: (Use your composition books and the textbooks). What is the relationship between individuals, populations, communities and abiotic factors in an ecosystem? Give an example of a qualitative observation and a quantitative observation. What is a controlled experiment? Remember to write complete sentences when doing your bell work.

8. Read “Ecoscenario Introductions” Read pages 11 and 12 only

10-11. Assign Ecoscenarios You will receive your ecoscenario to study Each group should start by reading your section of the “Ecoscenario Introductions” in FOSS Science Resources. Each group will get a set of ecoscenario cards. These will introduce the major organisms in the ecosystem. All the information on the ecoscenario cards is also available online. If you have online access, you may use the online activity at Foss.com Guidelines for additional research

12. Begin the Ecoscenario study Notebook sheet 5, Ecoscenario Introduction, Attach this to the first-left hand side and answer the question on the right-hand side.

12. Begin the Ecoscenario study A number of important organisms in each ecosystem are featured on the cards, one organisms to a card. Each card has A photograph of the organisms; Its common and scientific name; Information about its life cycle, interactions, and relationships; Information about how it gets its food; and A description of its role in the ecosystem Read the article section for your ecoscenario and study the cards then answer the questions in Part 1 of your notebook sheet

13. Notebook entry Did you: Identify the biotic and abiotic element of your ecosystem? Identify the type of ecosystem your ecoscenario represents? Identify abiotic factors influencing the populations in your ecosystem?

14. Extension Homework Continue your exploration at home. The more you know about your ecoscenario, the more you will understand the implications of pressures on the ecosystem. https://marcielange.wikispaces.com/

15. Discuss the Ecoscenarios Each group needs to answer: Where is your ecoscenario? Briefly describe the ecosystem in your ecoscenario, including abiotic factors. What are the dominant plant and animal populations found there?

15. Discuss the Ecoscenarios Each group will get a small self-stick note to record your ecoscenario name and post it on the US map so other students can see the location. You will describe what you have found out about your ecoscenario.

Remember to write complete sentences when doing your bell work. Bell work 28 March 9, 2016 * You will need your composition books today.* Take out your bell work from yesterday, skip a line, write Wednesday and answer the following questions: (Use your composition books and the textbooks). What do we call the things we rely on from our ecosystems like food, water, shelter, recreation, etc.? What are biomes? If we are part of an ecosystem, how do we fit in with that definition? Remember to write complete sentences when doing your bell work.

16. Biome Review your notes on your ecoscenarios. All of the ecoscenarios you are studying were selected because they represent important ecosystems found around the world. Today you are going to get to find other areas that are similar to the one you are studying. If you are studying a desert, are all deserts the same? Would all deserts have the same plants and animals? What might cause differences?

16. Biome Master H, Biomes. Identify the biome your ecoscenario represents. Some of the biomes do not have an associated ecoscenario Biomes can cover large areas of Earth. They may include many individual ecosystems. These large areas share biotic and abiotic factors.

17. Read “Defining a Biome” Page 23-24

18. Research Biomes Do part 2 of sheet 5, Ecoscenario Introduction Use your file for your ecoscenario to answer the questions. Ecoscenario locator

Describe the biome that your ecoscenario represents. 19.Discuss Biomes Describe the biome that your ecoscenario represents.

20. Review ecosystem services Notebook sheet 6, Ecoscenario Ecosystem Services Now that you are a little bit familiar with the ecosystem and biome in your ecoscenario, you can begin to identify the ecosystem services associated with that ecosystem. Look through your ecoscenario notes and resources and complete part 1 of the notebook sheet. You will complete part 2 later

21. Revisit the focus question 2.3 When finished with your page 5 and part one of page 6 Summarize the roles of ecosystem services and their importance to humans. Return to your focus question and record your answer. What are the defining characteristics of your ecosystem?

22. Vocabulary 2.3 Please put them with their definitions in your book and in the index Biome: collection of ecosystems that have similar environments and organisms Ecosystem service: a benefit that humans obtain from the environment Read pages 5-8 of your book

23. Review notebook entries: Key points strategy Go through your notebook entries and select one key point that summarizes an important finding from this investigation. You should record this point in you notebooks Share you key points with your group, selecting one key point to share with the class.

23. Key points: add if needed Ecosystems are composed of individual organisms, populations, and communities of many types of organisms, and are affected by abiotic factors. An observational study of an ecosystem can reveal all the interactions between individuals, populations, and communities living there. Ecosystems can be identified as part of a specific biome.