Environmental++Sciences+and+the+Flow+of+Energy

**5.3 Life Science All students will understand that life science principles are powerful conceptual tools for making sense of the complexity, diversity, and interconnectedness of life on Earth. Order in natural systems arises in accordance with rules that govern the physical world, and the order of natural systems can be modeled and predicted through the use of mathematics.**
 * Standards **

** Content Statements ** ** Strand B. Matter and Energy Transformations: **Food is required for energy and building cellular materials. Organisms in an ecosystem have different ways of obtaining food, and some organisms obtain their food directly from other organisms. ** Strand C. Interdependence: **All animals and most plants depend on both other organisms and their environment to meet their basic needs.


 * CPI # Cumulative Progress Indicator (CPI)**


 * 5.3.6.B.1** Describe the sources of the reactants of photosynthesis and trace the pathway to the products.
 * 5.3.6.B.2** Illustrate the flow of energy (food) through a community.
 * 5.3.6.C.1** Explain the impact of meeting human needs and wants on local and global environments.

**Unit Learning Targets (Lessons/Resources)**

 * 5.3.6.B.1 Construct a digital simulation to explain how energy entering the ecosystem as sunlight is transferred by producers into chemical energy through photosynthesis.**

Science Text pages A118-A-122
[|Energy Flow]

[|Photosynthesis Kids Science]

[|Photosynthesis Song]

[|Photosynthesis Printable]

[|Photosynthesis Photo]

[|Science Online Food]

[|Food Chain Video]

Photosynthesis Scramble (Science Curriculum Binder)

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Food Chain Webquest: __[]__

Science Text pages A123-A128

[|smartexchangeEcosystems]

Food Web/Chain : Science curriculum binder

Owl Pellets

[|Virtual Owl Pellets]

Alpine Woods - hoola hoop activity

**5.3.6.C.1 Distinguish between natural (wildfire, flood, drought) and man-made changes (forest clear cutting, input of pollutants, filling in of marshland) to an ecosystem and discuss how these changes affect the balance of an ecosystem.**

Trans Options presentatins, based on **Grade 5** Science Curriculum Standards, the program **“It’s All About Energy”** would be applicable as it relates to the following standards: **5.1.8.C.2**; **5.1.8.C.3**; **5.1.8.D.1**; and **5.3.6.C.1**

Alpine Woods Activities - bird migration

**5.3.6.C.2 Research and participate in local projects where humans are changing the environment to ensure a species' survival.**
 * Cite evidence to support the idea that when the environment changes, some plants and animals survive and reproduce, and others die or move to other locations.**

Living vs Non-living - Read pages A5-A16 of Scott Foresman text

National Parks virtual field trip

Endangered Animals

=== **5.3.6.C.3** **Analyze the changes that occur (eg., adaptations of plants and animals) in species of organisms as a result of the changes in Earth's physical environment over long periods of time.** ===

Adaptations: See Science Curriculum Binder

[|The Habitable Planet]

Content Statements:

 * Strand G: Biogeochemical Cycles: The biogeochemical cycles in the Earth System include the flow of microscopic and macroscopic resources from one reservoir in hydrosphere, geosphere, atmosphere, or biosphere to another, are driven by the Earth's internal and external sources of energy, and are impacted by human activity.**

**5.4.6.G.2** Create a model of ecosystems in two different locations, and compare and contrast the living and nonliving components.

**5.4.6.G.3** Describe ways that humans can improve the health of ecosystems around the world.

** Unit Essential Questions: **

**Unit Enduring Understandings:**

Energy flow and movement of material from the Earth's interior causes geologic events on the Earth's surface.
==== Earth's components form systems that have cycles and patterns that allow us to make predictions. These systems continually interact at different rates of time, affecting the Earth locally and globally. ====

Unit Learning Targets (Lessons/Resources)
5.4.6.G.2 5.4.6.G.3 Why will you never find a polar bear in a rain forest or an alligator on tundra?

Biome resources in Science Curriculum Binder

**Assessments:**
Probes

Is it Food for Plants? Habitat Change Adaptation Where Does Oil Come From? Global Warming

Biome Books Owl Pellet Ecosystem Quiz
 * Formative Assessment:**