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6th Grade

Life Science Topics

Biosphere

Biomes

Biodiversity

Ecosystems

Species Populations

Symbiotic Relationships

Biotic and Abiotic Factors

Animal Adaptations

Water Cycle

Carbon Cycle

Nitrogen Cycles

Energy Sources

Content Standard 1

Changes in environmental conditions can affect the survival of individual organisms, populations, and entire species.

 

Essential Questions

1.  How do ecosystem changes affect biodiversity?

2.  How does biodiversity contribute to an ecosystem’s equilibrium?

3. What are the limiting factors in a species' survival?

4. How does geographical location affect biodiversity?

 

Student Performance Outcomes

  • Interpret and analyze data about changes in environmental conditions, such as climate change and populations, that support a claim describing why a specific population might be increasing or decreasing.

 

  • Develop, communicate, and justify an evidence-based explanation about how ecosystems interact with and impact the global environment.

 

  • Model equilibrium in an ecosystem, including basic inputs and outputs, to predict how a change to that ecosystem such as climate change might impact the organisms, populations, and species within it such as the removal of a top predator or introduction of a new species.

 

  • Examine, evaluate, question, and ethically use information from a variety of sources and media to investigate how environmental conditions affect the survival of individual organisms.

Content Standard 2

Organisms interact with each other and their environment in various ways that create a flow of energy and cycling of matter in an ecosystem.

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Essential Questions

1. How do different ecosystems cycle matter differently?

2. What “jobs’ do organisms do to facilitate the flow of energy and cycling of matter?

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Student Performance Outcomes

  • Develop, communicate, and justify an evidence based explanation about why are generally more producers than consumers in an ecosystem

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  • Design a food web diagram to show the flow of energy through an ecosystem.

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  • Compare and contrast the flow of energy with the cycling of matter in ecosystems.

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