Provide hands-on activities for practice and mastery. Check for understanding of concepts and skills by using relevant standard materials, i.e. worksheets, text problems, workbooks, teacher prepared exercises, etc.
Practice photosynthesis and respiration and research ecosystems.
Objective: Practice photosynthesis and respiration and research ecosystems.
Activity:
1) Photosynthesis and Respiration molecule building activity: these two processes are modeled using beads for atoms of C, H and O.
2) Photosynthesis and respiration Study Guide
3) Questions from text
4) Webquest to research ecosystems, especially those that are considered "hot spots" such as rain forests and coral reefs and those that are considered to be extreme. (To introduce this activity a few video clips from the movie, "Finding Nemo" can be shown and then have students contrast the coral reef ecosystem with the deap sea ecosystem, answering such questions as: "What is the basis of the circle of life in the deep sea where there is no light for photosynthesis?")
5) Ecology worksheet
