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Teacher: 4th
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Student Expectations Bundled in
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4.9A - investigate that most producers need
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sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to make
Engage:
4.9B - describe the flow of energy through food
webs, beginning with the Sun, and predict how
changes in the ecosystem affect the food web
such as a fire in a forest.
Explain:
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Resources/Materials:
Stemscopes - Producers, Consumers, and Food Webs - Engage,
Brainpop Photosynthesis, Food Chain, Food Chain Game, Food Fight (game);
Discovery Education - Food Chains, You in the Food Web
Stemscopes
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AIMS
Brainpop
Discovery Education
Stemscopes - Producers, Consumers, and Food Webs - Explore;
Suggested labs - Producing a Producer (AIMS), Chain Games (AIMS),
Catch Me If You Can (AIMS), Survival Rivalry (AIMS), Web Work
(AIMS), Sea Food (AIMS)
Colored paper circles - green, orange, yellow, red,
brown (1 set per class)
Drawing paper (per student)
Crayons or markers (per student)
Scissors (per student)
Sandwich-sized plastic bag (per student)
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Food Chains and Webs;
Explore:
their own food, while consumers are dependent
on other organisms for food.
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Stemscopes - Producers, Consumers, and Food Webs - Stemscopedia,
Content Connections, eScopedia, Science Vocabulary Game; Plants Are
Producers (AIMS) booklet, The Part Plants Play (AIMS) booklet, The
Critter Connection - Food Chains (AIMS) booklet
see AIMS materials list (suggested labs)
Elaborate:
Stemscopes - Producers, Consumers, and Food Webs - Reading
Science A,B,C , Safari with Suraj, Extensions
Evaluate:
Objective/Key Understanding:
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We will describe the flow of energy through food webs,
beginning with the Sun, and predict how changes in
the ecosystem affect the food web such as a fire in a
forest.
Stemscopes - Producers, Consumers, and Food Webs Pre-assessment, Progress Monitoring, Post-assessment, Concept
Attainment Quiz
Stop & Check for Understanding—High Level Questions
How do humans affect food webs?
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What would happen to the number of mice if the number of owls decreased?
What would happen to the number of owls if the number of mice decrease?
Illustrate how a forest food web would be affected by a fire.
Closing Product/ Question/ Informal
Assessment:
Critical Writing Prompt:
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Purposeful
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photosynthesis
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Where does an organism get its energy from?
What are
3 types
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severe
lack of
of consumers
rainfall for several
the pond grass near the pond dies. Explain what might happen to the different
Why are plants
called
producers?
organisms
that live
in the
pond ecosystem (such as algae, snails, mosquitoes, and fish).
Vocabulary:
forest ecosystem, desert ecosystem, coral reef ecosystem, or rainforest ecosystem.
What is a food web?
LOOK at this picture of a pumpkin that fell off a
farmer’s delivery truck.
THINK about the flow of energy in an ecosystem.
How is this pumpkin still involved in the transfer of
energy, even though it is smashed?
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Relevance:
(Real World
Connection)
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place
in the food
chain. Where did the pumpkin plant get its energy
to
grow?
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chains and webs. Energy that moves through a food
web originally comes from the Sun.
•We can predict how changes in an ecosystem can
affect the flow of energy in a food web. Changes to
an ecosystem, such as a forest fire, can cause
animals to leave and some animals and plants to
perish, which can have an impact on the flow of