Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of periods of abundant and scarce resources on the growth of organisms and the size of populations in an ecosystem.
In this unit, students focus on animal populations, studying how all living things interact with and depend on other living things and the environment for survival. For this lesson, students explore how energy and matter move through a particular ecosystem’s food web and can be disrupted by the introduction of invasive species. This page highlights key components of this lesson.
.png)
In this unit, students explore the phenomena of rocky shore ecosystems, studying the interactions between living things and the environment. In this lesson they focus on the science phenomena of how organisms interact with one another in an ecosystem. This page showcases key elements from this lesson.
In this unit, students explore forest ecosystem phenomena, investigating the science phenomena of interactions between living things and the environment. In this lesson students discover the phenomena of tree rings and analyze how resource availability affects the ability of different organisms and populations to grow. This page is a high-level extract of this lesson.
