Name: Mary Jane Probola
Date: 10/14/2014
Content Area: Biology
Woodland Hills High School
Lesson Plans
Length of Lesson: 2 week
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Stage I – Desired Results
Big Ideas: Describe ecological levels of
organization in the biosphere.
Lesson Topic (Standard/Anchor): Bio.B.4.1
Student Objectives (Competencies/Outcomes):
Students will be able to: describe organism,
popuation, community, ecosystem, biotic, abiotic and
aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems
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Essential Questions:
Understanding Goals (Concepts): students
will understand how abiotic and biotic
organisms work and live in an ecosystem
Vocabulary: coevolution, parasitism,
secondary compounds, symbosis, mutualism,
commensalism, competition,niche, realized
niche, fundamental niche,competitive
exclusion biodiversity, climate, biomes,
littoral zone, limnetic zone, profundal zone
Stage II – Assessment Evidence
Performance Task: interactive notebook, project on coevolution
Other Evidence: quizzes, tests, worksheets
Stage III – Learning Plan
Materials & Resources: Biology books, binders, colored pencils,
projector, video
CONTENT AREA READING:
Biology
Formative Assessment(s):
#1. Think-Pair-Share
#2. Graphic Organizers
#3. Summarizing Main Ideas
Others:
Instructional Procedures*: (includes mini-lessons)
Scaffolding used:
#1. Guided Notes
#2 . Teacher Promping
Others:
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Active Engagements used:
#1. Note-Taking
#2. Cooperative Education
Others:
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Date 10/13
 In-service
Assignments
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Day
Date 10/14
Day B
 Read pages 385-387
and take notes on
important facts
 students will
complete Data Lab
page 387
 Period 2: Computer
lab: choose a biome,
show commensulism,
mutualism,
parasitism and
coevolution with
pictures and
explanantions
 Do it Now: Name one
country that is
located in each
biome on page 392
Date 10/7
Day A
 Read page 388-390 and
take notes on
important facts
 students will view
Relationships in
Ecosystems and
determine what the
relationship is between
17 different examples
 Period 2: complete
cards or project
Date 10/8
Day B
 Read pages 391-395
 students will complete
the Biome cards using
information from the
book or the internet
 Period 2: complete
page 400 #1-10
 Do it Now: A scientist
finds no evidence that
species in a
community are
competing and
concludes that
competition never
played a role in the
developmentof this
community. Is this
conclusion valid?
Justify your answer
 Do it Now:
 Finally Friday Do it
Now: If you could
 create a nemonic
choose a biome to live
sentence to remember
in, what would it be
the 7 biomes of the
and why? What drew
earth.
you to live there?
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* Include Active Engagement, Explicit Instruction, Metacognition, Modeling, & Scaffolding
Date 10/9
Day A
 Watch Children of the
Tundra: write 2
paragraphs or make a
Venn Diagram how life
is different in the
tundra than life here