1. DO NOW
V: 0
Monday
Which of these food webs, forest or grassland, would best survive a disease that kills the grasses? Why?
Forest Food Web
Grassland Food Web

2. TEKS
V: 0
Explore how short- and long-term environment changes affect organisms and traits in subsequent populations

3. Vocabulary V: 0 Organism Short-term Environmental Changes
Long-term Environment Changes
Ocean Systems
Runoff
Artificial Reefs

4. EQs & Objectives V: 0 ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS: DAILY OBJECTIVES:
How do humans affect their environment?
DAILY OBJECTIVES:
Students will…
Compare naturally occurring and human-caused short-term and long-term environmental changes

5. Homework & Agenda V: 0 Today’s Agenda Environmental Changes Posters
STAAR Practice Questions
Homework
Kaibab Graphing Homework due FRIDAY!
ECOLOGY UNIT TEST FRIDAY!

6. After Quiz V: 2 Read the article at your table about the Garbage Patch
Answer the following questions on page 68 of your notebook.
What is the Garbage Patch?
Where does the trash come from?
Whose responsibility is it to get the garbage patch cleaned-up?
Should you be concerned about the garbage patch? Why or why not?
Video

7. Environmental Changes
Use pages from textbook to complete the following poster with your shoulder partner:
Short term Environmental Changes
Long-term Environmental Changes
Naturally Occurring
3 examples are….
A population affect would be….
Beneficial traits that would be passed down to the next generation would be…
Human-caused

8. STAAR Practice Questions
V: 2
1. Using RUBIES, answer the 5 STAAR practice problems on your page. 2. Underneath each question, write a 1 sentence explanation stating why your answer is the best choice.

9. DO NOW
V: 0
Tuesday
A flightless bird called a rail, lives on Guam and has no snake predators. A brown snake that eats a wide variety of birds was introduced to the island by humans.
What do you think happened to the bird population? Why?

10. TEKS
V: 0
Explore how short- and long-term environment changes affect organisms and traits in subsequent populations

11. Vocabulary V: 0 Organism Short-term Environmental Changes
Long-term Environment Changes
Ocean Systems
Runoff
Artificial Reefs

12. EQs & Objectives V: 0 ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS: DAILY OBJECTIVES:
How do humans affect their environment?
DAILY OBJECTIVES:
Students will…
Compare naturally occurring and human-caused short-term and long-term environmental changes

13. Homework & Agenda V: 0 Today’s Agenda Periods 1, 2, and 3:
Garbage Patch Video
Posters
STAAR Practice Questions
Periods 4 and 5:
Environmental Change Scenarios
Ecology Graphing and Questions
Homework
Kaibab Graphing Homework due FRIDAY
ECOLOGY UNIT TEST FRIDAY!

14. After Quiz V: 2 Read the article at your table about the Garbage Patch
Answer the following questions on page 68 of your notebook.
What is the Garbage Patch?
Where does the trash come from?
Whose responsibility is it to get the garbage patch cleaned-up?
Should you be concerned about the garbage patch? Why or why not?
Video

15. Environmental Changes
Use pages from textbook to complete the following poster with your shoulder partner:
Short term Environmental Changes
Long-term Environmental Changes
Naturally Occurring
3 examples are….
A population affected would be….
Traits of these organisms that would be affected are…
Human-caused

16. STAAR Practice Questions
V: 2
1. Using RUBIES, answer the 5 STAAR practice problems on your page. 2. Underneath each question, write a 1 sentence explanation stating why your answer is the best choice.

17. Scenarios V: 2 On page of your INB… For each scenario,
Draw a picture of what is happening in the scenario.
Write a 1 sentence description.
Answer these questions
Environmental Change Scenarios
Scenario 1
Picture
Description
Questions 1. 2. 3. 4.
Scenario 2
Picture
Description
Questions 1. 2. 3. 4.
Scenario 3
Picture
Description
Questions 1. 2. 3. 4.

18. Questions
V: 2
Answer these questions in the “Question” box for each scenario:
How did the environment change?
Was this a short-term or long-term change to the environment?
How do you think organisms respond or responded to these changes?
How would these changes be reflected in the traits that are passed to future populations?

19. Graphing Practice
V: 2
Chad Jay, an ecologist who has studied sea change due to climate change.
Read about Dr. Jay
Complete a graph on the data he has collected
Answer the conclusion questions about the graph

20. DO NOW
V: 0
Wednesday/Thursday
1. Would having more phytoplankton in the oceans be a good or bad thing? Why or why not?
2. What short-term or long-term environmental changes would cause an increase in phytoplankton? (think about what is put on plants to make them grow)

21. TEKS V: 0 The student is expected to:
Explore how short- and long-term environment changes affect organisms and traits in subsequent populations
Recognize human dependence on ocean systems and explain how human activities such as runoff, artificial reefs, or use of resources have modified these systems

22. Vocabulary V: 0 Organism Short-term Environmental Changes
Long-term Environment Changes
Ocean Systems
Runoff
Artificial Reefs

23. EQs & Objectives V: 0 ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS: DAILY OBJECTIVES:
How do humans affect their environment?
DAILY OBJECTIVES:
Students will…
Describe how humans have impacted ocean systems.

24. Homework & Agenda V: 0 Today’s Agenda 4-square and videos Review
Kaibab Graphing Homework due FRIDAY
ECOLOGY UNIT TEST FRIDAY!

25. Human influences on the Environment
Create the following table in your INB.
Humans depend on the ocean ecosystem for…
Runoff from land into streams and rivers have modified ocean ecosystems by…
Artificial reefs have modified ocean ecosystems by…
Humans’ use of resources have modified ocean systems by…

26. Human Influences on the Environment
Watch the following video clips and then complete the sentence stems in the table. Artificial Reefs Dead Zone Poisoned Waters Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch

27. Review
V: 0
Unit Test Review 1. Quiz-quiz-trade 2. Make flashcards 3. Dry Erase Board Practice

28. DO NOW
V: 0
Friday
List 5 environmental changes you know, then identify them as short-term or long-term and explain why.

29. TEKS
V: 0
The student is expected to describe producer/consumer, predator/prey, and parasite/host relationships as they occur in food webs within marine, freshwater, and terrestrial ecosystems.

30. TEKS
V: 0
Investigate how organisms and populations in an ecosystem depend on and may compete for biotic and abiotic factors such as quantity of light, water, range of temperatures, or soil composition;

31. TEKS V: 0 The student is expected to:
Explore how short- and long-term environment changes affect organisms and traits in subsequent populations
Recognize human dependence on ocean systems and explain how human activities such as runoff, artificial reefs, or use of resources have modified these systems

32. EQs & Objectives V: 0 ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS: DAILY OBJECTIVES:
How do humans affect their environment?
DAILY OBJECTIVES:
Students will…
Show mastery of Ecology TEKS.

33. Homework & Agenda V: 0 Today’s Agenda Quiz-quiz-trade Unit Test
Reflection Ecology, Cover Page Weather
Homework
Homework DUE TODAY
UNIT TEST TODAY 

34. Read and re-read the passage. Underline the question
UNIT TEST
V: 0
Read and re-read the passage.
Underline the question
Bubble important words
Identify the key idea, write it in margin.
Eliminate the wrong answers
Select the correct answer ✓
Mass of an object

35. After Test…
V: 0
Turn to page 73 in your notebook and answer the following questions with 5 sentences minimum:
1. Name and describe 3 types of relationships in an ecosystem.
2. How do humans affect their environment?
3. Choose one of the following: garbage patch, climate change, runoff. Create an action plan for how to solve these problems.
On page 74…
Write the title “Weather”
List 5 vocabulary words you know about weather.
Draw 5 images IN COLOR that you think of when you think of weather.
Write a paragraph discussing what you think you will be learning in this unit.