SPRING BREAK WASN’T LONG ENOUGH! WE ARE GOING TO STUDY OUR NEXT UNIT ECOLOGY BY GOING ON “VACATION” TO YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK Begin a new section or new notebook Biotechnology Test: Weds/Thurs Review Tuesday: 8am, after school

DateSessionActivitypage 4/ Ecosystem Word Splash1 4/13-14 How Can Wolves Change a River?2

8.L.3 Understand how organisms interact with and respond to the biotic and abiotic components of their environment 8.L.3.1 Explain how factors such as food, water, shelter, and space affect populations in an ecosystem. 8.L.3.2 Summarize the relationships between producers, consumers and decomposers including the positive and negative consequences of such interactions including – Coexistence and cooperation – Competition (predator/prey) – Parasitism – Mutualism Explain how the flow of energy within food webs is interconnected with the cycling of matter (including water, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and oxygen)

Essential Question How Can Wolves Change a River? TLW describe how organisms interact in an ecosystem by analyzing trophic cascade in Yellowstone National Park using: – Population graphs – Info-graphics – Text dependent questions from a close read – Video

Ecosystem Word Splash p.1 What do you think of when you hear “Ecosystem”? Write as many words/phrases that come to mind on this page. Do your own thinking, we will share as a class! Ecosystem

On page 2 of your notebook, create the table on the following slide. For each text listed, you will record what your are thinking/questioning/connecting to during your reading of the text. After each text you will answer the essential question on the right. Your answer only needs to be one or two complete sentences. But you MUST reference in the text you just finished reading in your answer. The order of the texts used will be: Population Graphs, Info Graphic, Article w/ ?’s (1-3) and finally the video.

Metacognitive Writing (p2) How can wolves change a river? What am I thinking/wondering…. Population Graphs 1 st : Info-graphic 2 nd : 3 rd : 4 th : Video 4 th : Each time you answer this question, your answer should have more: scientific vocabulary descriptions of ecosystem relationships references to text.

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How Wolves Change a River After answering the EQ for the 4 th time, return to the 4 th question on the article and answer it. Tape the handouts onto page 2 of your notebook.

Close…TOTD Answer the question below, then EXPLAIN your answer. Use evidence from today’s lesson A A fundamental concept of ecology is that living organisms: a)Are independent and do not interact with each other or with the physical environment b)Do not interact with other living organisms, but do interact with the physical environment c)Interact with each other, but do not interact with the physical environment d)Interact with other living organisms and interact with the physical environment