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Biotic and Abiotic Interactions Within a Biome
Students work together to examine the characteristics of a biome. Using the Internet, they research the relationship between biotic and abiotic factors and living organisms. They develop a presentation along with a solution to a...
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Biomes Around The World
Fifth graders explore the six major biomes found in the world and choose one for further research and presentation. Using internet sources, they identify the major characteristics of their biome and synthesize their information into a...
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Earth's Ecosystem: Seven Major Biomes
Students discuss the different types of ecosystems and the composition of biomes. Working in groups, they define various related terms and make posters of them. Then they explain their posters to the class.
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Native Americans ~ Biomes Web Quest/deserts
Students identify the biomes of each region: mountains, forests, plains, tundra, desert. They identify and describe features of North American desert (Mojave, Sonoron, Great Basin. Chihuahaun). They identify what we are doing today is...
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Biomes and Ecosystems
Learners study biomes and ecosystems. They watch videos on rainforests and the food web and select a country of ancestry or interest to research. They write a report on the flora and fauna of their selected country. They present to...
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Ecology--Biomes
For this ecology worksheet, students view a world map and match the name of the biome with the number that identifies it. There are ten different biomes to identify.
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Habitats: must live with them....cannot live without them.
Young scholars conduct an internet study regarding habitat, ecosystem, biome and the region they live in. They observe the habitat by visiting a State Park and observing the organisms in their habitat. In addition, they create their own...
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Biomes and Population Dynamics - Balance Within Natural Systems
How large can a population become? The fifth installment of a nine-part unit teaches young ecologists about limiting factors that determine the carrying capacity of species in the Sonoran Desert. Here is a PowerPoint to help present this...
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Take a Tour of a Biome
Students create a website illustrating their knowledge of a particular biome. In this combined science, language arts and technology lesson, students discuss what they already know about biomes, and then are divided into groups of 3-4....
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7th Science Quiz
This seventh grade life science quiz has a professional appearance and well-written multiple-choice questions. However, it seems to cover too broad a variety of biology topics for only 15 questions to fully assess. There is one question...
California Academy of Science
A Day in the Life of a San Francisco Native Animal
Before Google, before Sillicon Valley, before the Gold Rush, the San Francisco landscape was a biome filled with grizzly bears, mule deer, tule elk, coyotes, gray fox, gophers, and moles. To explore the early days of yesteryear, kids...
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Hands on Biome--Building
Students create a model biome. In this ecology instructional activity, students use materials to create a model biome. There is an extension activity that allows students to write about plants and animals and their specific biome.
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Biomes: Land of the Inuit
Students study Inuit and their ancestors. In this biomes lesson students study the relationship between the Inuit and their environment and create a class art gallery.
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Introduction to Biomes
Fifth graders use scientific skills and processes to recognize how living things depend on one another and on the environment for survival and the human use of natural resources impacts the environment. Explain how Earth's surface...
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Adaptations to Environments with Mammals
Fifth graders, after viewing a PowerPoint on different mammals, analyze what a biome is. Then they choose a mammal to research and go outside to feel the grass and leaves and hypothesize about which biome they live in as well as its...
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Nature, Red in Tooth and Claw
Students explore the science and art of taxidermy, and research various biomes that could be depicted in museum displays. They synthesize their knowledge by creating dioramas that depict the diverse life forms typical of these biomes.
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Climatographs
In this climatographs worksheet, learners are given 3 sets of data of the rainfall and temperature for 3 different biomes. Students identify the types of biome for each and answer questions about each. They make 2 graphs to compare the...
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Meteors and Meteorites
Students create Earth boxes containing some of Earth's biomes--desert, forest, tundra, ocean, and mountains. They simulate Earth's encounter with a comet trail and the resulting meteor shower. They present their Earth boxes to...
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Protecting Holy Cows
Young scholars study the interrelationships of organisms and their environments. They study ecological communities and determine what is necessary for survival. Students discuss and answer questions concerning a group's biome, habitat,...
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Elements of Biology: Biomes
Students describe the different types of biomes. In this biology lesson, students create a map of assigned biome with descriptive paragraphs. They share their findings to class.
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Biomes
Eighth graders use the Internet to research biomes and how animals adapt. They describe habitat's features and factors that are unique to the biome they are researching. They also participate in activities.
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Biomes: The Threat of the Sea
Students create posters to raise awareness about Global Warming as an immediate threat. In this environmental lesson, students respond to the video Biomes: The Threat of the Sea by researching global warming and making posters to...
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Guetemala's Changing Forest
Eighth graders compare their local ecological zone to the tropical rainforest. In this natural ecology instructional activity, 8th graders complete an activity about the differences in ecological zones. They compare their biome to the...
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Biomes/ecosystems
Fifth graders examine ecosystems through a variety of activities including an Internet hunt, work at centers, and building a diorama on a specific habitat.
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