Unit 9: Ecosystems
Unit 10: Human Impact on Ecosystems
Mon Mar 9
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Ecosystems intro
Ecology PPT
Video Clips
Brain Pop
Word Board
HW Sentences
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Mon Mar 16
Tue Mar 10
Wed Mar 11
Ecosystems intro
Ecology PPT
Video clips
Brain Pop
Word Board
HW Sentences
 Research
Project handout
 Punnett
Squares &
Genetics
 Brain pop
 Quiz
Wed Mar 18
Tue Mar 17
 SPRING BREAK  SPRING BREAK  SPRING
BREAK
Mon Mar 23
Tue Mar 24
 Research
project due
 Review Ch 12
 Research
project due
 Review Ch 12
 TEST
 Brain Genie
 Adaptations PPT  Adaptations
PPT
 Human Impact
Project
 Human Impact
assignment
Project
assignment
Tue Apr 7
Wed Apr 8
 Habitat & Food
Chains
 Smart Board
Activity
Tue Mar 31
 Habitat & Food
Chains
 Smart Board
Activity
 Quiz
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Mon Apr 13
 Finish
Presentations
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Tue Apr 14
 Review
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 SPRING
BREAK
Thur Mar 26
 Smart Board
Activity
 review
worksheets
Wed Apr 1
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Thur Apr 2
 Review
 SPRING
BREAK
Fri Mar 27(B)
 TEST
 Brain Genie
Fri Apr 3
 Human Activity  Human Activity
 Brain Genie
 Brain Genie
Thur Apr 9
Lion King Clip  Lion King clip
Food Pyramid  Food Pyramid
Quiz
 Start Human
Impact
Start Human
Presentations
Impact
Presentations
Wed Apr 15
Fri Mar 13(B)
 Research
 Worksheets on
Project handout
food webs
 Punnett
 Discovery
Squares &
Learning
Genetics
 Brain pop
 quiz
Thur Mar 19
Fri Mar 20
Wed Mar 25
 HW:worksheetd
on food webs
 Smart Board
Activity
 Discovery
Learning
Mon Mar 30
Mon Apr 6
Thur Mar 12
Thur Apr 16
 TEST
Fri Apr 10
 Finish
Presentations
Fri Apr 17
 TEST
Unit 9: Ecosystems Students will investigate abiotic and biotic interactions within ecosystems
Unit 10: Human Impact on Ecosystems Students will research and investigate how human activities
contribute to modifying Earth’s ecosystems.
SCI.8.1A Demonstrate safe practices during laboratory and field investigations as outlined in the Texas Safety
Standards.
SCI.8.2A Plan and implement comparative and descriptive investigations by making observations, asking welldefined questions, and using appropriate equipment and technology.
SCI.8.2B Design and implement experimental investigations by making observations, asking well-defined
questions, formulating testable hypotheses, and using appropriate equipment and technology.
SCI.8.2C Collect and record data using the International System of Units (SI) and qualitative means such as
labeled drawings, writing, and graphic organizers.
SCI.8.2D Construct tables, using repeated trials and means, to organize data and identify patterns.
SCI.8.2E Analyze data to formulate reasonable explanations, communicate valid conclusions supported by the
data, and predict trends.
SCI.8.3A In all fields of science, analyze, evaluate, and critique scientific explanations by using logical reasoning
and experimental and observational testing.
SCI.8.3B Use models to represent aspects of the natural world such as an atom, amolecule, space or a geologic
feature.
SCI.8.3C Identify advantages and limitations of models such as size, scale, properties, and materials.
SCI.8.4A Use appropriate tools to collect, record, and analyze information as needed to teach the curriculum.
SCI.8.4B Use preventative safety equipment.
SCI.8.11A Describe producer/consumer, predator/prey, and parasite/host relationships as they occur in food
webs in marine, freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems.
SCI.8.11B 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.
SCI.8.11C Explore how short and long-term environmental changes affect organisms and traits in subsequent
populations.
SCI.8.11D Recognize human dependence on ocean systems and explain how human activities such as runoff,
artificial reefs, or use of resources have modified these systems.