Grade+5+Life+Science+(LS)


 * Life Science**
 * Topic:** Interconnections within Ecosystems


 * Content:** All of the processes that take place within organisms require energy

Students will learn that oraganisms require energy How do ecosystems provide for energy needs of organisms? What would be some causes for some of the resources of ecosystems to disappear?
 * Lesson Plans:**

Students can create their own ecosystems that can sustain life Students can go online to research their own environment or pick thier favorite animal and research the ecosystem/habitat it lives in
 * STEM:**

How many Bears Can Live in the Forest? Project WILD Oh Deer! Project WILD What did you life cost wildlife? Project WILD
 * Simulations:**


 * ORC:**
 * 1) 3470 Ecosystems provide essential services to life
 * 2) 3538 How organisms satisfy their needs through their ecosystem
 * 3) 6479 Charecteristics of our own environment

The Backyard Naturalist by Craig Tufts
 * Literature:**

Wet n Wild p99 WOW! THe Wonders of Wilderness
 * Text Referance:**

Ecosystem Habitat processes Organisms Energy
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