Ecology pt 2 Lesson Plan
Name: Thai Huynh
Terminal Objective: By the end of today’s lesson students will be able to give examples that explain why
trophic levels are important to many ecosystems
Arizona Science Standards
S4C3PO1: Identify the relationships among organisms within populations, communities, ecosystems, and
biomes.
S4C3PO2: Describe how organisms are influenced by a particular combination of biotic (living) and
biotic (nonliving) factors in an environment.
ELL Standard: 9-10.SL.4: Present information, findings, and supporting evidence clearly, concisely, and
logically such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development,
substance, and style are appropriate to purpose, audience, and task.
Time
~15-20 mins
Sub Objectives
Teaching Strategies
SWBAT recall from
memory the factors
(abiotic/biotic) that
affect an ecosystem
Allow students to
answer the BW
Questions in their
journals
Active Student
Participation
Answer the following
questions:
Make a list of biotic and
abiotic factors in a
desert ecosystem
Blooms: Knowledge
Explain why a food web
provides a better model
of an ecosystem than a
food chain does.
~35 mins
SWBAT design an
experiment to tests the
factors that affect the
living world
Field Study Activity:
Students will go outside
(in groups) and list how
abiotic factors are
affecting biotic factors
and vice versa
Your lab assignment
today is to go outside
and rope off 1 meter of
an area to study
SWBAT analyze and
Allow students to
interpret data and make reflect on their data and
conclusions based on
analyze their findings.
the findings of their
designed experiments
Students will write a
short paragraph about
Blooms: Applications,
how the factors are
Analysis, Evaluation
affecting each other
Make sure to list how
one factor affects the
other (and down the
line) in your science
journal. This is to be at
least 1 paragraph
(minimum of 8
sentences).
After the students have
finished their
paragraphs, they will
present as a group
Presentations of biotic
and abiotic factors that
your group observed
will be in 15 minutes!
Blooms: Synthesis
~35 mins
Record and observe
how abiotic factors are
affecting biotic factors
SWBAT give examples
that explain why trophic
levels are important to
many ecosystems
~35 mins
Blooms:
Comprehension
Start and Finish
Chapter 16 Section 2
Notes
Takes notes in your
journals on Chapter 16
Section 2