1. Information you need to know:
Students will understand the relationship between living organisms and their environment. 
Different environments support different living organisms that are adapted to that region of Earth. 
Organisms are living systems that maintain a steady state with that environment and whose balance may be disrupted by internal and external stimuli. External stimuli include human activity or the environment. 
Successful organisms can reestablish a balance through different processes such as a feedback mechanism.

2. Warm Ups NO Warm Ups. Start a new Table of Contents - Ecology
Agenda: February 3, Copy new Table of Contents 2. Video Pole to Pole TEKS: Observe and describe how different environments, including microhabitats in schoolyards and biomes, support different varieties of organisms & Describe how biodiversity contributes to the sustainability of an ecosystem.
Warm Ups
NO Warm Ups. Start a new Table of Contents - Ecology

3. Agenda: February 6, 2017 1. Warm Ups 2
Agenda: February 6, Warm Ups 2. Notes: Ecology TEKS: Observe and describe how different environments, including microhabitats in schoolyards and biomes, support different varieties of organisms & Describe how biodiversity contributes to the sustainability of an ecosystem.
Warm Ups:
1. How is diversity of plants and animals good for an ecosystem?

4. Warm Up Give an example of biodiversity.
Agenda: February 7, Warm Ups 2. Ecosystem Notes TEKS: Observe and describe how different environments, including microhabitats in schoolyards and biomes, support different varieties of organisms & Describe how biodiversity contributes to the sustainability of an ecosystem.
Warm Up
Give an example of biodiversity.

5. Warm Up How can diversity help sustain a population of organisms?
Agenda: February 8, Warm Ups 2. Predator Prey Relationships TEKS: Observe and describe how different environments, including microhabitats in schoolyards and biomes, support different varieties of organisms & Describe how biodiversity contributes to the sustainability of an ecosystem.
Warm Up
How can diversity help sustain a population of organisms?

6. Warm Ups 1. How does the ecology of an ecosystem change with time?
Agenda: February 9, Warm Ups 2. Gizmo: Coral Reefs Biotic Factors TEKS: Observe and describe how different environments, including microhabitats in schoolyards and biomes, support different varieties of organisms & Describe how biodiversity contributes to the sustainability of an ecosystem.
Warm Ups
1. How does the ecology of an ecosystem change with time?

7. No Warm Ups Prior Knowledge Questions of Gizmo
Agenda: February 10-13, Warm Ups 2. Gizmo: Coral Reefs Abiotic Factors TEKS: Observe and describe how different environments, including microhabitats in schoolyards and biomes, support different varieties of organisms & Describe how biodiversity contributes to the sustainability of an ecosystem.
No Warm Ups
Prior Knowledge Questions of Gizmo

8. No Warm Up Prior Knowledge Questions of Gizmo
Agenda: February 14, Prior Knowledge Questions 2. Gizmo: Photosynthesis TEKS: Observe and describe how different environments, including microhabitats in schoolyards and biomes, support different varieties of organisms & Describe how biodiversity contributes to the sustainability of an ecosystem.
No Warm Up
Prior Knowledge Questions of Gizmo

9. Agenda: February 15-22 , 2017 1. Warm Ups 2
Agenda: February , Warm Ups 2. Biome Project TEKS: Observe and describe how different environments, including microhabitats in schoolyards and biomes, support different varieties of organisms & Describe how biodiversity contributes to the sustainability of an ecosystem.
Warm Ups
What is a limiting factor with a deer population?
What is a limiting factor with photosynthesis?

10. Agenda: February 22, 2017 1. Warm Ups 2
Agenda: February 22, Warm Ups 2. Finish Projects TEKS: Observe and describe how different environments, including microhabitats in schoolyards and biomes, support different varieties of organisms & Describe how biodiversity contributes to the sustainability of an ecosystem.
Warm Ups
What are the different components within an ecosystems?
Abiotic/inorganic –
Biotic/organic-
2. How do these components interact within an ecosystem?

11. Agenda: February 23, 2017 1. Warm Ups 2
Agenda: February 23, Warm Ups 2. Write 1 page about a trip through a biome. TEKS: Observe and describe how different environments, including microhabitats in schoolyards and biomes, support different varieties of organisms & Describe how biodiversity contributes to the sustainability of an ecosystem.
Warm Ups
Which biomes have a lot of snow?
Which biome has the most rainfall?

12. Agenda: February 24, 2017 1. Warm Ups 2
Agenda: February 24, Warm Ups 2. Notes: Energy in Ecosystems (food chains/webs) Video – Ecosystem Ecology Crash Course #7 TEKS: Recognize that radiant energy from the Sun is transformed into chemical energy through the process of photosynthesis. Diagram the flow of energy through living systems, including food chains, food webs and energy pyramids.
Warm Ups
1. How does the sun help in the process of photosynthesis?
2. What energy transfers occur in the process of photosynthesis?
3. What are the products and reactants within photosynthesis?
Carbon Dioxide + Water -> Glucose + Oxygen
Reactants Products

13. Agenda: February 27, 2017 1. Warm Ups 2
Agenda: February 27, Warm Ups 2. Gizmo: Food Chains TEKS: Recognize that radiant energy from the Sun is transformed into chemical energy through the process of photosynthesis. Diagram the flow of energy through living systems, including food chains, food webs and energy pyramids.
Warm Ups
What is a resource that comes from living things?
What means to rot and break apart/decompose?
What is plant matter that is decomposed and recycled as soil?

14. Agenda: February 28, 2017 1. Warm Ups 2
Agenda: February 28, Warm Ups 2. Understanding Living Systems Packet/ 3D Model of an Energy Pyramid TEKS: Recognize that radiant energy from the Sun is transformed into chemical energy through the process of photosynthesis. Diagram the flow of energy through living systems, including food chains, food webs and energy pyramids.
Warm Ups
What does a food chain start with?
Make a food chain that starts with grass and ends with a human.

15. Agenda: March 1, 2017 1. HOTS Questions 2. Everybody is in a Chain 3
Agenda: March 1, HOTS Questions 2. Everybody is in a Chain 3. Biology: The Science of life Ecology Video TEKS: Recognize that radiant energy from the Sun is transformed into chemical energy through the process of photosynthesis. Diagram the flow of energy through living systems, including food chains, food webs and energy pyramids.
Warm Ups
What eats-
dead organisms?
animals?
plants and animals?
plants only?
Producer -> herbivore -> carnivore -> carnivore - >decomposer
primary consumer -> secondary consumer -> tertiary consumer Richard Kern food chain and food web

16. Agenda: March 2, Warm Ups 2. Edusmart: Energy Flow Through Ecosystems TEKS: Recognize that radiant energy from the Sun is transformed into chemical energy through the process of photosynthesis. Diagram the flow of energy through living systems, including food chains, food webs and energy pyramids.
Warm Ups
Is there more energy at the beginning or end of a food chain?
Why?

17. Agenda: March 3, Warm ups 2. Edusmart: Cycling of Matter/Energy Flow TEKS: Recognize that radiant energy from the Sun is transformed into chemical energy through the process of photosynthesis. Diagram the flow of energy through living systems, including food chains, food webs and energy pyramids.
Warm Ups
The ______ cycle is when CO2 is exchanged/cycled in oceans, air and ecosystems.
All living things are made of C_________

18. Agenda: March 6, Warm Ups 2. Edusmart: The Diversity of Life/Photosynthesis TEKS: Recognize that radiant energy from the Sun is transformed into chemical energy through the process of photosynthesis. Diagram the flow of energy through living systems, including food chains, food webs and energy pyramids.
Warm Ups
How much energy is passed on in a food chain?
How much is used up at each level?

19. Agenda: March 7, Warm Ups 2. Ecological Succession Foldable TEKS: Recognize that radiant energy from the Sun is transformed into chemical energy through the process of photosynthesis. Diagram the flow of energy through living systems, including food chains, food webs and energy pyramids.
Warm Ups
In the Phosphorus Cycle, ____ and RNA are produced.
Hint: 3 letters and found in chromosomes
2. What creates useful additives for soil?

20. Primary succession starts with _____ rock.
Agenda: March 8, Warm Ups 2. Ecological Succession Card Sort TEKS: Recognize that radiant energy from the Sun is transformed into chemical energy through the process of photosynthesis. Diagram the flow of energy through living systems, including food chains, food webs and energy pyramids.
Warm Ups
Primary succession starts with _____ rock.
A _________ species, like a lichen, is the 1st species there.
__________ succession starts with soil and is much __________.

21. Agenda: March 9, Warm Ups 2. The Lorax (Old one) TEKS: Recognize that radiant energy from the Sun is transformed into chemical energy through the process of photosynthesis. Diagram the flow of energy through living systems, including food chains, food webs and energy pyramids.
Warm Ups
Would large trees indicate a later stage or earlier in ecological succession? Why?
What could cause secondary succession to begin

22. Agenda: March 10, Warm Ups 2. Eco Anagrams TEKS: Recognize that radiant energy from the Sun is transformed into chemical energy through the process of photosynthesis. Diagram the flow of energy through living systems, including food chains, food webs and energy pyramids.
Warm Ups
In the Nitrogen Cycle, ________ ______ are produced.
What element is the basis of all living things?

23. 1. Amino Acids
2. Carbon

24. Writing Prompt
You are working as a guide at a science museum. A little boy asks you why different places around the world have different plants and animals. Explain to him how different environments support different organisms. Give examples of several ecosystems and why each on is unique.

25. HOTS Question Oh Deer Questions
Agenda: March 4, HOTS Questions 2. Oh Deer TEKS: Observe and describe how different environments, including microhabitats in schoolyards and biomes, support different varieties of organisms & Describe how biodiversity contributes to the sustainability of an ecosystem.
HOTS Question
Oh Deer Questions

26. What is in the gas we exhale? (2 elements)
Agenda: March 20, HOTS Questions 2. Carbon Cycle TEKS: Matter and energy. The student knows that interactions occur between matter and energy.
HOTS Question - Same
What is in the gas we exhale? (2 elements)
What is the process where we make this gas?

27. Agenda: March 21, 2017 1. HOTS Questions 2. Nitrogen Cycle TEKS: 7. 5
Agenda: March 21, HOTS Questions 2. Nitrogen Cycle TEKS: Matter and energy. The student knows that interactions occur between matter and energy.
Warm Ups
_________ enters the atmosphere as CO2 from __________. CO2 is absorbed by __________ to make carbohydrates in _______________. Animals feed on plants passing ________ compounds in the food chain.

28. Agenda: March 22, 2017 1. HOTS Questions 2. Nitrogen Cycle TEKS: 7. 5
Agenda: March 22, HOTS Questions 2. Nitrogen Cycle TEKS: Matter and energy. The student knows that interactions occur between matter and energy.
Warm Ups
Nitrogen Cycle
Organisms need _________ to build proteins and DNA.
What can change nitrogen gas into forms that can be used by plants?
Why is the cycling of matter important?

29. What element is the basis for all living things?
Agenda: March 23, Warm Ups 2. Water Cycle TEKS: Matter and energy. The student knows that interactions occur between matter and energy.
Warm Ups
What is the break down of dead materials into carbon dioxide and water?
Living things return carbon to the atmosphere by breaking down sugar molecules during _________.
What element is the basis for all living things?

30. How do decomposers help cycle matter?
Agenda: March 24, Warm Ups 2. Tropisms TEKS: Matter and energy. The student knows that interactions occur between matter and energy.
Warm Ups
____ is important because it combines with elements and cycles with them.
How do decomposers help cycle matter?