Description
Are you looking for a fun project to apply learning about ecosystems? In this project, students design a unique ecosystem with its own organisms, organize the organisms in a food web, and identify ecological relationships. This was a popular project with my students who loved the creativity involved.
Additionally this project can be adapted in different ways...
- It can be hand-drawn or designed on the computer.
- Student can use AI to generate pictures.
- There are options to simply or add to the project to accommodate students.
Included:
- How to Introduce the Project & Use the Canva Template
- Complete Project Description with Checklists
- Rubric for the Full Project & Simplified Version
- Canva Template to Help Students Organize & Complete the Project
- Example Project
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Highlights
Digital downloads
Grades
7th - 12th
Subjects
Standards
NGSSMS-LS2-2
NGSSMS-LS2-1
Pages
16
Answer Key
Rubric only
Teaching Duration
3 days
Description
Are you looking for a fun project to apply learning about ecosystems? In this project, students design a unique ecosystem with its own organisms, organize the organisms in a food web, and identify ecological relationships. This was a popular project with my students who loved the creativity involved.
Additionally this project can be adapted in different ways...
- It can be hand-drawn or designed on the computer.
- Student can use AI to generate pictures.
- There are options to simply or add to the project to accommodate students.
Included:
- How to Introduce the Project & Use the Canva Template
- Complete Project Description with Checklists
- Rubric for the Full Project & Simplified Version
- Canva Template to Help Students Organize & Complete the Project
- Example Project
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Standards
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NGSSMS-LS2-2
Construct an explanation that predicts patterns of interactions among organisms across multiple ecosystems. Emphasis is on predicting consistent patterns of interactions in different ecosystems in terms of the relationships among and between organisms and abiotic components of ecosystems. Examples of types of interactions could include competitive, predatory, and mutually beneficial.
NGSSMS-LS2-1
Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem. Emphasis is on cause and effect relationships between resources and growth of individual organisms and the numbers of organisms in ecosystems during periods of abundant and scarce resources.
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