1. Book Two: Environments
Investigation One:
Experiment Preparation

2. 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?

3. Get your Plicker’s answer pages ready!
Review! Review! Review!
Get your Plicker’s answer pages ready!

4. A scientist who studies ecosystems
1. Ecologist -
A scientist who studies ecosystems

5. 2. ecosystem -
A community of organisms interacting with each other and with the nonliving environment

6. Everything that surrounds and influences an organism
3. Environment -
Everything that surrounds
and influences an organism

7. 4. Environmental factor -
One part of the environment such as light, water, and temperature.

8. 5. organism -
Any living thing

9. An organism that can grow, consume, breathe, and reproduce
6. Living -
An organism that can grow, consume, breathe, and reproduce

10. An organism that can’t grow, consume, breathe, or reproduce
7. Nonliving -
An organism that can’t grow, consume, breathe, or reproduce

11. Any information obtained through your five senses
8. Observation -
Any information obtained
through your five senses

12. 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

13. 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?