1. Biome Puzzle Actvity

2. Instructions… -Grab a puzzle piece -Find the rest of your group members -Build your puzzle and read the facts

3. Discuss -What Biome did you have? -What is a biome? -With your group, choose three of the most interesting facts you read about your biome -What do those facts suggest about your biome?

4. Trophic Levels: Popcorn Lab

5. Big Idea All organisms need energy and matter to live and grow.

6. Focus Question What happens to energy as it moves through the trophic levels?

7. Engagement

10. Word Wall Trophic LevelsPrimary Consumers SunSecondary Consumers EnergyTertiary Consumers ProducersQuaternary Consumers

11. Kit Inventory

12. Prediction or Hypothesis  Examples that can be used.  If _______ then, _______ because_____________.  I think that ________ because ________________.

13. Operational Plan Energy Lost Counter Energy Kept Counter Energy Passers (3) Recorder Name of Student Job Description This student will count the popcorn that falls on the floor after the popcorn has been passed to the next trophic level (cup) and tell the recorder This student will count the popcorn that remains in each cup after the popcorn has been passed to the next trophic level (cup) and tell the recorder These students will pass the popcorn from one trophic level to the next (one cup to the next) starting with the largest and descending. This student will record the data during the demonstratio n/lab. Operational Plan

14. Collecting Data -As a group, decide how you are going to collect your data. -Remember, you must write down the energy kept, and the energy lost for each trophic level. -Be ready to share what your group came up with and why they chose this method in 10 minutes.

15. Class Data GroupEnergy KeptEnergy Lost Enter your group name (Number of Popcorn Pieces) PPCSCTCQCPPCSCTCQC Class Average

16. Graph It…

17. Claims and Evidence ClaimsEvidence

18. Concluding Paragraph Topic Sentence In this investigation we studied….(remember our focus question) Claim One (C1) Our first claim is… Evidence One (E1) I reached this claim because… Claim Two (C2) We also found… Evidence Two (E2) Our data supported this because… Claim Three (C3) The last claim we reached … Evidence Three (E3) We believe this because… Conclusion Sentence We originally thought……, we now know…..

19. Sources of error…

20. Making Meaning (any add in)

21. 100% 10% -.001%.01%.1% 1%

22. Reflection  Today our big idea was _______________.  How does what we learned today apply to the big idea?  What other questions do you have about this topic?  Think of a biome that you know about, how can you relate what you learned today to the biome that you are already familiar with.