RD
3
GRADE
“ECOSYSTEMS”
UNIT
LESSON ONE
Response
Before
story is
read.
“Butternut Hollow Pond” Are the following statements about our story True or False?
Write the proper letter in each box for your response.
1.
Butternut Hollow Pond is a safe place for animals to live.
1.
Birds are the most dangerous animal at Butternut Hollow Pond.
1.
Deer are the biggest animals at the pond.
1.
All animals at Butternut Hollow Pond are consumers.
1.
Butternut Hollow Pond is only about water animals.
1.
A Snapping Turtle ate all the baby ducks.
1.
Fish in Butternut Hollow Pond are the producers.
1.
Frogs catch their food with their tongues.
1.
Young Boys are consumers, fish are prey.
1.
Night time is very quiet at Butternut Hollow Pond.
1.
Some animals only hunt at night.
1.
Trees, brush, grass, and reeds are the producers.
Response
After
story is
read.
PRODUCER – CONSUMERDECOMPOSER GAME
Needed: Sentence strip tags and
Energy Crown
Play game using instructions from the
book.
Create food chains using names of
animals and plants found at a pond.
(Names can be pulled from the pictures
used in the who eats who pages.)
LESSON TWO
FOOD WEB BALANCE
READ “WOLF ISLAND”
Answer questions that go along with the
“Wolf Island” story by Celia Godkin
Read the sample paragraph for
inspiration!
LESSON THREE
Read the story:
“Cactus Hotel”
or
“Desert Giant”
and have
students
answer
Questions in
their
notebooks.
Type of Organism
Saguaro Cactus
Gila Woodpecker
Elf Owl
Harris Hawk
Long-nosed Bat
White-winged Dove
Monarch Butterfly
Honey Bee
Tohono O’odham Indians
Curved-Billed Thrasher
Horned Lizard
Sand ants
Coyote
Javelina
Termites
Black widow spider
Desert Centipede
Banded Gecko
Cactus Mouse
Spotted night Snake
Aquatic beetle
Hister beetle
Stripe-tailed Scorpion
Giant millipede
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SAGUARO CACTUS
HOTEL
Create an wonderful advertisement for
your Saguaro Cactus Hotel that will
attract animals to their new home!
You may use pictures to help but the
main context of the lesson is
persuading your clients through your
words!
LESSON FOUR
Questions about what is needed to
survive and read “Brother Eagle –
Sister Sky”.
Teach about pollution and do
demonstrations.
Final part on conserving energy.
AIR POLLUTION
AIR POLLUTION
LESSON FIVE
Discuss water pollution then read the
story and create the polluted “Big
Bear Lake” as the students observe.
Follow-up with the questions about
the story. The second story “The
Story of Chinook Lake” is similar but
once again brings home the
importance of good antipollution
measures.
WATER POLLUTION
WATER POLLUTION
VOCABULARY
CROSSWORD PUZZLES
You can use all three or select which
one’s you want to use to help
students recognize the words.
GLOSSARY
Make sure that you tab this section
with a bright sticky note folded and
taped into place. Have students use
Marzano’s vocab strategy sheet or
use one that you like that will help the
students understand the new words
used in this learning unit. Take time
to thoroughly discuss them and use
as many ways to communicate the
meaning as possible.