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Biology (SCP) 512
Unit 10 - Ecology

TIME FRAME: 1 week
GRADE: 10
CONTACT:

         MAP LEVEL: 1
07.0 SCIENCE

07.0.3.0.4 -- Students will describe how a variety of organisms, such as producers, obtain their basic needs (e.g., food, water, air)

07.0.3.0.5 -- Students will explain how organisms interact with other organisms in different environments (e.g., mutualism, parasitism, competition)

07.0.3.0.6 -- Students will explain that some source of energy is needed for all organisms to stay alive and grow.

07.0.3.5.1 -- Students will describe the roles of producers, consumers and decomposers in an ecosystem and provide specific examples of each

07.0.3.5.3 -- Students will explain that while matter s recycled in an ecosystem, there is a one-way flow of energy in ecosystems

07.0.3.5.4 -- Students will explain that the number and variety of organisms and populations are dependent on the resources and physical factors of their environments

30.0 WORLD LANGUAGE

30.0.3.5.5 -- Students will write notes or short letters in the target language to peers in the target culture on topics of shared personal interest, including daily events and activities.

30.0.3.9.2 -- Students will perform scenes from plays and/or recite poems or excerpts from short stories in the target language.

30.0.3.9.3 -- Students will prepare oral and/or written analyses in the target language of the plot, character, descriptions and development, and themes found in authentic literary works, including poems, plays, short stories and short works of fiction or nonfiction.

30.0.3.9.4 -- Students will describe, explain, express opinions about and analyze stories, plays, poems or other literature, as well as radio programs, music, films, art and websites.

30.0.14.0.5 30.0.14.5.1 30.0 WORLD LANGUAGE

30.0.14.9.1 30.0.5.6.5 30.0.5.6.6 30.0 WORLD LANGUAGE



What is an ecosystem and what are its components?
Relate the pyramid configuration to energy flow and biomass flow?
What is the distinction between a food chain and a food web and why is the food web the component of a sustainable ecosystem?



1. The role of autotrophs and heterotrophs (herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, decomposers) in an ecosystem
2. Food chains/webs and pyramids to demonstrate the flow of energy through an ecosystem
3. Define population and species
4. Relationships between different populations: predation, partasitism, mutualism, and commensalism
5. Growth rate: growth without limits, growth with limits, boom and bust, and zero population growth
6. Population density: density-dependent limiting factors (competition, predation, parasitism, stress) vs. density-independent limiting factors (weather, human activities)
7. Human population growth



Students will develop the ability to: 1. Analyze a food chain/web and pyramid, including the relationships of the autotrophs and heterotrophs and flow of energy
2. Compare and contrast the relationships between different populations in an ecosystem
3. Apply growth rate characteristics to a given population
4. Determine the density-dependent and/or density-independent factor affecting a population
5. Describe the history of human population and discuss what may happen to the human population in the future



1. Produce a food chain/web and food pyramid
2. Analyze a food pyramid




Objective/subjective testing (30:70)
Cooperative activities
class discussions