5.9A Interdependency Student Expectation
2015-2016 Clark
The student is expected to observe the way organisms live and survive in their ecosystem by interacting with the
living and nonliving elements.
Essential Questions that students will be asked
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5.9 Over reaching Questions- What is caused by from the relationship between life to matter and
energy?
5.9A Essential Questions- What relationships does biotic and abiotic factors have in the environment?
What is an ecosystem? What are the different parts of an ecosystem?
How do the living components in an ecosystem support the other components?
How do the nonliving components in an ecosystem support the other components?
Key Concepts that need to be understood to answer essential questions
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Organisms interact with both living and nonliving things to survive in their ecosystems.
Plants interact with living things such as animals and other plants in complex ways that also require
nonliving things, such as carbon dioxide, water, and sunlight.
Animals depend on other living things, such as plants and other animals, and nonliving things, such as
air and water, to survive.
All due dates written in planner on the date due 2/17/2016
On-line Pre-Assessment homework grade completed through STEMscopes website
by evening of 2/16/2015
Reading Focus Questions (pages 89-94 ) done in class 2/16/2016 turned in 2/17/2016
****** 2/18/2016 Earth Systems Major Assessment *********
Explore Student Journal class assignment 2/19/2016
Explain Content Connections activities 2/22/2016
Vocabulary due 2/23/2016
Ecosystem
Producer
Symbiotic
biotic
Consumer
Decomposer
abiotic
Carnivore
Organism
Herbivore
adaptation
Omnivore
2/23/2016 Reading- Interdependency
2/23/2016 Writing- WRITE about how these animals both benefit from this relationship. What do
you think would happen if the bird riding on the zebra’s back were a vulture or other scavenger? How
would that change the relationship?
STEMscopes Web Assignments due the evening of 2/23/2016
Post-Assessment for 5.9A Interdependency Post Assessment given 2/24/2016
Student and Parent Signature _______________________________________
5.9A Interdependency Student Expectation
2015-2016 Clark
Reading Focus Questions (pages 89- 94) Use complete sentences to answer the
following questions.
1) What is an interaction?
2) Give two examples of interactions that you have on a daily bases and explain how if they are with abiotic
or biotic factors in your environment?
3) What are some things other organisms might interact with? Are they living or non living?
4) Can you think of some ways organisms interact with each other?
5) What is an ecosystem? Explain and give an examples of each part.
6) List three types of ecosystems describe their biotic and abiotic pieces.
7) How do the abiotic components in an ecosystem support the other components?
8) How do the biotic components in an ecosystem support the other components?
9) What labels do we give to organisms that make up the biotic component of an ecosystem?
10) Describe a producer
11) Describe a consumer and the 5 types of consumers
12) Interaction activity below
Interaction Activity- Work with a classmate or a small group to record how you interact with your
environment every day.
1. First, find a partner or make a small group.
2. Then, work together to list the living and nonliving components you have interacted with today. See
how many you can list in three minutes. Use a watch or a timer to keep track of time. You might want
to build a T-chart to help organize your list.
• For example, you might have eaten a piece of fruit at lunch. Fruit comes from plants, so it
would count as a living component.
• You also may have worn a coat to protect you from the cold. The cold temperature would
count as a nonliving component. (If the coat contains fibers from plants, it counts as a living
component.)
3. When you are finished, compare your list with another group. What living and nonliving
components did they list? Did they list any that you did not? What do you think are the most important
components? Could you live without any of these components?
Stretch Activity- Complete the connection with you child page 94
Here are some questions to discuss with students:
• How is your organism dependent on the living components in its environment?
• How is your organism dependent on the nonliving components in its environment?
• What components are needed by almost all organisms in the environment?
• Which interactions were difficult to observe? How do you know they were happening?