Teacher: Donna Dyer
Lesson Plans – Dates: 4/11-4/15
Grade/Subject: 7th Grade Science
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Do Now: Complete the sheet you
were given when you came into
class today. Be sure to explain the
reasoning behind your answers.
Targets
Do Now: Give one example of each:
individual, population, community,
ecosystem, abiotic
Do Now: put these in order
from smallest to largest:
community, population,
individual, ecosystem
Targets
Targets
Define ecosystem vocabulary on glossary sheets
Ecosystem Card Sort
Read story about ecosystems
Watch Jane Goodall video about ecosystems
Finish video
Discuss video questions
Ecosystems Quiz
Evaluation: Card Sort Sheet
Evaluation: Video Questions
Evaluation: Video questions, Quiz
Differentiate between the ecological levels of
organization.
Instructional Strategies:
Methods/Activities –
Thursday
Differentiate between the ecological levels of
organization.
Discuss factors that cause a population size to
decrease.
Instructional Strategies:
Methods/Activities –
Do Now: Classify each of the
Friday
following by their level of
organization: rabbit, rabbits in
field behind your house, rabbits
and grasshoppers in field behind
your house, rabbits and
grasshoppers in brown soil in
field behind your house with lots
of moisture
Do Now: Draw a picture of your
group’s ecosystem. Is it aquatic or
terrestrial? Explain.
Targets
Targets
Go over quiz
Sort animals into 2 ecosystems in which they live
Define aquatic and terrestrial and add to glossary
sheets
Prepare ecosystems for live animals
Observe and measure organisms and put them into their
appropriate ecosystem
Evaluation: Ecosystem observations
Evaluation: Ecosystem observations
Differentiate between the ecological levels of
organization.
Describe transfer of energy in relationships.
Instructional Strategies:
Methods/Activities –
Differentiate between the ecological levels of
organization.
Describe transfer of energy in relationships.
Instructional Strategies:
Methods/Activities –
Differentiate between the ecological levels of
organization.
Discuss factors that cause a population size to
decrease.
Instructional Strategies:
Methods/Activities –
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