1. DO NOW V: 0 Answer on your Do Now sheet.
Monday
Answer on your Do Now sheet.
Describe the difference between a biotic and abiotic factor.
If a forest is experiencing a drought (no water), how would that affect the ecosystem?

2. TEKS
V: 0
The student is expected to describe producer/consumer, predator/prey, and parasite/host relationships as they occur in food webs within marine, freshwater, and terrestrial ecosystems.

3. TEKS
V: 0
Investigate how organisms and populations in an ecosystem depend on and may compete for biotic and abiotic factors such as quantity of light, water, range of temperatures, or soil composition;

4. Vocabulary V: 0 Competition Biotic Abiotic Soil Composition
Temperature Ranges

5. EQs & Objectives V: 0 ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS: DAILY OBJECTIVES:
How do changes in biotic and abiotic factors affect ecosystems?
DAILY OBJECTIVES:
Students will…
Describe how changes in biotic and abiotic factors affect an ecosystem.

6. Homework & Agenda V: 0 Today’s Agenda Complete Conclusion Questions
Organism Relationship Identification
Dry Erase Board Questions
Homework
No Homework
QUIZ THURSDAY!

7. Competition Lab Discussions
V: 0
On page 64..
List 3 abiotic factors in the competition game.
List 3 biotic factors in the competition game.
What do the hands, forceps, spoon, and fork represent? 
What do the macaroni, red beans, black beans, and rice represent? 
Describe a real-world scenario where different organisms are competing for the same food source. Include at least 3 consumers and 3 food sources (producers or prey).
What are 3 abiotic factors that could change in your ecosystem?
How would a change in the abiotic factors affect the competition among the organisms?

8. Organism Relationships
V: 0
Create the following table in your INB.
Organism
Helped, Hurt, or Not Affected
Type of Relationship

9. Predator vs Prey V: 2 Answer the following questions about the graph…
1. Which is the predator? Which is the prey?
2. What patterns do you notice?
3. At 20 weeks, why would the predator-prey relationship be different than at 25 weeks?
Number of individuals
Time (weeks)

10. Dry Erase Board Practice
V: 0
If the red snapper was overfished, then the mullet population will…
The shark population will…..

11. Dry Erase Board Pracitce
V: 0
Bacteria in the human gut help us digest food, this is an example of a relationship.
A tapeworm absorbs the nutrients of a dog, this is an example of a relationship.
Give 3 examples of a predator-prey relationship in a marine environment.
List a producer-consumer relationship in a freshwater environment.
Name an example of a carnivore, omnivore, and herbivore in a terrestrial environment.

12. DO NOW
V: 0
Thursday
Which of these correctly describes a relationship between organisms in the soil food web below?
Protozoa get nutrients from small arthropods
Mammals are predators of birds.
Nematodes prey on arthropods
Bacteria get nutrients from organic matter
Explain why your answer is correct.

13. TEKS
V: 0
The student is expected to describe producer/consumer, predator/prey, and parasite/host relationships as they occur in food webs within marine, freshwater, and terrestrial ecosystems.

14. TEKS
V: 0
Investigate how organisms and populations in an ecosystem depend on and may compete for biotic and abiotic factors such as quantity of light, water, range of temperatures, or soil composition;

15. Vocabulary V: 0 Competition Biotic Abiotic Soil Composition
Temperature Ranges

16. EQs & Objectives V: 0 ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS: DAILY OBJECTIVES:
How do changes in biotic and abiotic factors affect ecosystems?
DAILY OBJECTIVES:
Students will…
Describe how changes in biotic and abiotic factors affect an ecosystem.

17. Homework & Agenda V: 0 Today’s Agenda Review Quiz
Garbage Patch Article
Garbage Patch Video
Homework
No Homework
QUIZ Today!

18. Predator vs Prey V: 2 Answer the following questions about the graph…
1. Which is the predator? Which is the prey?
2. What patterns do you notice?
3. At 20 weeks, why would the predator-prey relationship be different than at 25 weeks?
Number of individuals
Time (weeks)

19. Dry Erase Board Practice
V: 0
If the red snapper was overfished, then the mullet population will…
The shark population will…..

20. Dry Erase Board Pracitce
V: 0
Bacteria in the human gut help us digest food, this is an example of a relationship.
A tapeworm absorbs the nutrients of a dog, this is an example of a relationship.
Give 3 examples of a predator-prey relationship in a marine environment.
List a producer-consumer relationship in a freshwater environment.
Name an example of a carnivore, omnivore, and herbivore in a terrestrial environment.

21. Read and re-read the passage. Underline the question
QUIZ
V: 0
Read and re-read the passage.
Underline the question
Bubble important words
Identify the key idea, write it in margin.
Eliminate the wrong answers
Select the correct answer ✓
Mass of an object

22. After Quiz V: 2 Read the article at your table about the Garbage Patch
Answer the following questions on page 68 of your notebook.
What is the Garbage Patch?
Where does the trash come from?
Whose responsibility is it to get the garbage patch cleaned-up?
Should you be concerned about the garbage patch? Why or why not?
Video

23. DO NOW V: 0 Make 3 observations about the moths below.
Friday
Make 3 observations about the moths below.
After more factories were built during the industrial revolution, the population of black moths increased. Why do you think that is?

24. TEKS V: 0 The student is expected to:
Explore how short- and long-term environment changes affect organisms and traits in subsequent populations

25. Vocabulary V: 0 Organism Short-term Environmental Changes
Long-term Environment Changes
Ocean Systems
Runoff
Artificial Reefs

26. EQs & Objectives V: 0 ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS: DAILY OBJECTIVES:
How do humans affect their environment?
DAILY OBJECTIVES:
Students will…
Compare naturally occurring and human-caused short-term and long-term environmental changes

27. Homework & Agenda V: 0 Today’s Agenda Oil Spill Lab
Video and Conclusion Questions
Long-term and Short-term Environmental Changes Posters
Homework
Next Test: Friday, April 8
Topic: Ecology

28. Human Impact on the Environment Lab
Materials: Pie tin, water, oil, 4 feathers, food coloring, a craft stick, piece of cotton, cardboard, paper towel, a cup, and a spoon
With your table group…
Go to the sink and fill the water cup.
Put 2 cups of water in the pie tin.
Pour 4 teaspoons of colored oil in the pie tin with the water.
Add 3 feathers to the water.

29. Human Impact on the Environment Lab
Environmental Changes Lab
Sketch and describe lab set up:
Reflection questions.
1. What does the components of your lab set up represent?
2. What do you know about oil spills that hove happened in real life?
3. Brainstorm 3 ways that you could clean the oil out of your pie tin using the materials that you have. 71

30. Clean Up!
V: 2
Goal: Using your materials, get as much oil as you can into the “clean-up cup”. There should be no oil in the water or on the feathers when finished. Video

31. Conclusion Questions
V: 2
Conclusion Questions:
What strategies worked best to clean the feathers and the water?
List 3 animals that live in the ocean that would be affected by the oil spill.
Seagulls fish for white and black fish from the ocean. After an oil spill, they can no longer see the black fish. How will this affect the population of fish in later generations?
Video

32. Environmental Changes
Use pages from textbook to complete the following poster with your shoulder partner:
Short term Environmental Changes
Long-term Environmental Changes
Naturally Occurring
3 examples are….
A population affect would be….
Traits of these organisms that would be affected are…
Human-caused