sepup Unit 2: Ecology
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Ecology.pdf
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Compare data collected by scientists in the years before and after the arrival of the zebra mussels. From the data, begin to build a picture of how the ecosystem has changed.
read the Overview for background information about the river, its inhabitants, and their interactions;
access Curricular Materials--videos and text passages with discussion questions;
Graph the Data to pick which factors to view in relation to one another; and
Make a Scatterplot to help observe patterns in the data.
Download onto an iPad or MacBook. Open in Pages. Template to accompany Ecology Unit -activity 73.
Created by Michelle Holderman, 6th Grade, Eastwood.
Nematodes Essay Project
Ecology Unit, Activity 80
(By Michelle Holderman, 6th grade, Eastwood)
Slide of activities and the set up is similar to what they will see at West side. Each slide is an activity with warm up question and vocabulary (purple are new words)
(By Mackinzie Kempton, 6th grade, Daly)
Student slides for a digital science notebook with some sheets related to activities included and slides for vocabulary words. Notebooks in English and Spanish.
(By Mackinzie Kempton, 6th grade, Daly)
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