7th Grade Science 2014-2015

Friday, October 17, 2014

Today you will be completing a food web of a habitat you are familiar with.

Have fun and be creative!

Here is an example of an Arctic Food Web to help guide you.

Food Web Project

Directions: Create a food web for an ecosystem that is nearby. For example a

forest, stream, backyard, saltmarsh, or beach. You are encourage to choose an

ecosystem that you are familiar with. You should organize your food web so that

relationships between organisms are demonstrated (like we did in class).

Vocabulary to keep in mind:

organism

ecosystem

decomposer

food web

producer

consumer

trophic level

Required Items

Your food web should:

have 15 - 20 organisms represented in the food web.
identify the name of each organism.
include arrows to indicate the flow of energy.
have at least 2 of every trophic level represented (decomposer, producer, consumer).
show many organisms interacting.
contain a sketch for each organism.
use a ruler to draw straight lines.
contain color.
contain a title (example - A Tidal Pool Food Web).
contain your name and group.

Ecobeaker Maine Explorer

Students have been introduced to the concepts of modeling and simulations.
Students have access to an amazing technology resource in EcoBeaker Maine Explorer. This modeling program takes them into a Maine Lake and how the organism interact within it.
Here is an image of the program.

Thursday, October 9, 2014

Ecology Introduction

As we begin our new unit on Ecology, here are some important links to get us started:

Link to Sciencesaurus Reading:

Click here to access

Link to Ecology Vocabulary
Click here to access
Make a copy, Replace "Copy of" with your last name, and move to your science folder.

Modeling Slideshow
Click here to access
This is the slideshow we looked at today in class