Book Two: Environments Investigation One: Experiment Preparation
Focus questions How to prepare for a long-time experiment? How to set up a notebook for a long-time experiment? How to make observations during a long-time experiment?
Get your Plicker’s answer pages ready! Review! Review! Review! Get your Plicker’s answer pages ready!
A scientist who studies ecosystems 1. Ecologist - A scientist who studies ecosystems
2. ecosystem - A community of organisms interacting with each other and with the nonliving environment
Everything that surrounds and influences an organism 3. Environment - Everything that surrounds and influences an organism
4. Environmental factor - One part of the environment such as light, water, and temperature.
5. organism - Any living thing
An organism that can grow, consume, breathe, and reproduce 6. Living - An organism that can grow, consume, breathe, and reproduce
An organism that can’t grow, consume, breathe, or reproduce 7. Nonliving - An organism that can’t grow, consume, breathe, or reproduce
Any information obtained through your five senses 8. Observation - Any information obtained through your five senses
Experiments! Plant Growth Insect Lifecycle Aquarium Lifecycle Mr. Kapusta’s Room Mr. Croft’s Mrs. Smith’s Plant Growth Insect Lifecycle Aquarium Lifecycle Observation #1
Focus questions How to prepare for a long-time experiment? How to set up a notebook for a long-time experiment? How to make observations during a long-time experiment?