Ecology Unit Bundle

This unit supports distance learning- a PDF with links to Google Drive is included in order to assign student activities remotely.

Ecology 3 week unit with 200+ pages including interactive notebook activities, task cards, review games. Covers ecosystems, energy flow, food webs, population growth, biogeochemical cycles and biomes.

This unit can be used as a stand alone curriculum or as part of an existing curriculum.

4-5 week unit plan with answer keys and unit planner included!

✽✽ Ecology Notes ✽✽

1 power point divided into 5 sections)

covers the following:

-Introduction to Ecology (basic vocabulary and succession)

-Energy Flow in Ecosystems (primary productivity, trophic levels, producers/consumers, energy pyramids, biomass)

- Population Growth (dispersion, density, exponential vs. logistic growth, determining growth rate, density-independent vs. density dependent factors, r-strategists vs. K-strategists).

- Biogeochemical Cycles: Water, Carbon, Nitrogen

-Communities: Niche- fundamental vs. realized, invasive species, symbiosis + coevolution.

✽✽ Practice Sheets (Classwork and Homework) include: ✽✽

Introductory Ecology

-What is an Ecosystem? - distance learning

-Primary Succession Cut-n-Paste Timeline - distance learning

-Ecological Succession of a Pond- distance learning

Energy Flow

-Energy Flow in Ecosystems - distance learning

-Food Web Visual Vibes- distance learning

Population Growth

-Population Growth - distance learning

-Population Growth and Data - distance learning

-Predation or Starvation?

Biogeochemical cycles

Drawing Biogeochemical Cycles - distance learning

Biogeochemical Cycles and You - distance learning

Human Impact

Human Impact PowerPoint Presentation

Worksheets: Invasive Species, Climate Change and Agriculture, Dams

Rubric: Invasive Species Project

Deforestation online lesson

✽✽ Interactive Notebook Activities ✽✽

There are 15+ activities to choose from- designed for INBs or can be used as independent projects.

✽✽ Ecology Web Quests ✽✽

Human Population Growth Web Quest

**Study Tool**

Study Guides

Jeopardy Review Game

✽✽ Quizzes ✽✽

5 Quizzes: 3 open note quizzes (can be modified to suit your style) + 2 quizzes

1 Unit Test (multiple choice and open response)

✽✽ Viewing Guides for your Viewing Pleasure! ✽✽

Bonus! 2 Viewing Guides (Parasites: Eating Us Alive; Cane Toads: An Unnatural History)

✽✽ All About Biomes! ✽✽

Biome Notes (world biomes); Biome Mapping Across North America, and Biodiversity Bingo.

Purchased separately this bundle would cost $57.94. Get it here for nearly a 33% discount at $38.99

➩ ➩ Looking for the entire curriculum? You can get this unit along with several others in my Big Biology Curriculum Bundle

Related NGSS Standards:

• HS-LS2-1: Use mathematical and/or computational representations (graphs, charts, histograms, and population changes gathered from simulations or historical data sets) to support explanations of factors that affect carrying capacity of ecosystems at different scales.
• HS-LS2-2: Use mathematical representations to support and revise explanations based on evidence about factors affecting biodiversity and populations in ecosystems of different scales.
• HS-LS2-3: Construct and revise an explanation based on evidence for the cycling of matter and flow of energy in aerobic and anaerobic conditions.
• HS-LS2-4: Use mathematical representations to support claims for the cycling of matter and flow of energy among organisms in an ecosystem.
• HS-LS2-5: Develop a model (simulations and mathematical models) to illustrate the role of photosynthesis and cellular respiration in the cycling of carbon among the biosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and geosphere.
• HS-LS2-6: Evaluate the claims, evidence, and reasoning that the complex interactions in ecosystems maintain relatively consistent numbers and types of organisms in stable conditions, but changing conditions may result in a new ecosystem.
• HS-LS2-7: Design, evaluate, and refine a solution for reducing the impacts of human activities on the environment and biodiversity.
• HS-LS2-8: Evaluate the evidence for the role of group behavior on individual and species’ chances to survive and reproduce.
• HS-LS4-6: Create or revise a simulation to test a solution to mitigate adverse impacts of human activity on biodiversity.

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