Name: _________________________________
Date:__________________________
An Organism and its Ecosystem
Curriculum expectation:
1.
assess the impacts of human activities and technologies on the environment, and evaluate ways of controlling these
impacts;
2.
investigate interactions within the environment, and identify factors that affect the balance between different
components of an ecosystem;
3.
demonstrate an understanding of interactions between and among biotic and abiotic elements in the environment.
Specific Learning Goals:
-To understand the role of that organism in its ecosystem.
-To investigate the potential dangers, problems and obstacles that organism may face.
-To identify how humans can help protecting that organism.
TASK: Choose an animal or any other organism and become an expert on the topic. Pick one of from each column.
Role
You are a scientist
Format
Powerpoint or Prezi
who is studying the
Purpose/Audience
To convince the government of Canada
it is time to take action about the environment.
impacts of global
Use ONE animal to illustrate how the actions of
warming on different
humans have affected its ecosystem, habitat,
species.
lifestyle etc.
Facebook Profile or
Lost poster
(Incorporate pages that
animal would like,
groups they would
To inform the students of Cosburn and
the online community about the various things
Target intelligence
Visual-Spatial
Naturalist
Logical-Mathematics
(use graphs, statistics,
charts, tables etc. to
illustrate your point).
Visual-Spatial
Naturalist
that can affect the ecosystem of this animal and
how we can prevent this from happening.
join, example WWF,
Green Peace etc.)
You are the animal
A 3D piece of your
Kinesthetic
choice that shows the
To teach young kids about this animal
or organism you
chose.
connections and
and how it interacts with other elements of its
Naturalist
interactions between
ecosystem.
your animal and its
ecosystem.
Visual-Spatial
PROJECT CHECKLIST
Include the following information as discussed in class. Start your project by telling us more
about the characteristics of that animal.

Habitat

Diet

Height/Weight

Predator/prey

Adaptation/defence

Physical traits

Lifestyle

Life span

How it moves

Where it lives (country, climate, region etc.)

Rarity (extinct)
Level 4 thinking!
Make deep connections and reflect on the following:

Biotic elements and abiotic elements it needs to live

Biotic elements and abiotic elements it affects and how

How humans affect their ecosystem

How humans can prevent more damages to their ecosystem
BRAINSTORM HERE!