Week 6 EDU 652: “Topic” ActivityJennifer Almon

EDU 652: Instructional Design and DeliveryProfessor: Alicia Holland-Johnson

February 25, 2013

Ecology Adventure

This ecology adventure requires a handout from your teacher.

Make sure you have it ready when you view

this Powerpoint.By: Ms. Almon

Objectives• Students will be learning terminology dealing with ecosystems. Along

with this absorb activity, students will be completing a handout so the teacher can check for misunderstandings.

• Students will hear and analyze videos dealing with ecosystems. They will use this knowledge to further complete their handout.

• Students will assess their understanding of terminology on ecosystems using five memory link quizzes.

• Students will apply their understanding of food chains, food webs, and energy trophic pyramids by attaching their own examples that are not in the Powerpoint. They will demonstrate these do activities on their handout.

• Students will summarize their understanding of ecosystems through a video clip.

• In the connect activity for summarizing, students will be taking an application quiz during class that will help them connect their learning to pertinent life questions that face nature daily.

Individual Population Community Ecosystem Biome

TerminologyIndividual: one organism

Population: multiples of the same organism

Community: an organism living among other types of

organisms

Ecosystem: the abiotic and biotic parts of a type of

area where organisms live

Biome: several ecosystems together that make up a

similar type of habitat

Defin

ition

s (Cl

ick)

Ecosystems Lesson

Click here for video clip

.Anderson 2009

Community Structure

Click here for video clip.

Anderson 2012

Abiotic and Biotic Factors

Click here for video clip

.(Me2Junk 2010)

Biomes

Click here for video clip

.

(NeoK12 2012)

Food Web

Defin

ition

(Clic

k)

Another Food Web

Example of Pyramids of Energy

• http://www.neok12.com/quiz/ECOSYS03 –ecology• http://www.neok12.com/quiz/ECOSYS05 -biomes• http://www.neok12.com/quiz/ECOSYS01 -producers vs. consumers• http://www.neok12.com/quiz/ECOSYS02 -classifying organisms by their

energy source style• http://www.neok12.com/diagram/Ecosystems-01.htm -ecosystems and

food chain

• Play the above ecology games to see how well you understand the terminology so far.

• Place your score on your handout.

(NeoK12 2012)

Water CycleClick here for video clip

.(Ecogeeks 2012)

Nitrogen Cycle

Oxygen Cycle

Carbon CycleClick here for video clip.

(NeoK12 2011)

What an incredible world the Creator has designed for us. Just check out the biodiversity of life just on this page..

Summary of Ecology

Click here for video clip.

(Summary of Ecology 2012)

ReferencesAnderson, Paul. (2012). Community Structure. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOp-qLLTMso

Anderson, Paul. (2009). Ecosystems. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot_KmOTYfRA

Ecogeeks. (2012). The Water Cycle in Nature. Retrieved from http://video.answers.com/the-water-cycle-in-nature-517283864.

Horton, W. (2012). E-Learning by Design, 2nd Edition. San Francisco, CA: Pfeiffer.

Me2Junk. (2010). Abiotic and Biotic. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woSO0D94VGA

NeoK12. (2012). Carbon Cycle. Retrieved from http://www.neok12.com/Ecosystems.htm.

NeoK12. (2012). Ecosystems. Retrieved from http://www.neok12.com/Ecosystems.htm.

Summary of Ecology. (2010). Retrieved from http://www.greatpacifica.com.

Surragate, M. (2009). Biomes. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZGCZY47YS0