Life+Science

Learning Unit #3

 * **//5th Grade//**
 * //Life Science - Interactions within Ecosystems//**
 * //All of the processes that take place within organisms require energy.//**

__Brainstorming Tool:__ Students will activate their prior knowledge about their understanding of food chains and food webs by completing the Food Chains & Food Webs Google Form. Here is the link to Google Forms: @http://www.google.com/google-d-s/forms/

__Creation Tools:__ Students will use different creation tools to demonstrate learning about food chains and food webs. First, they will create a comic to illustrate what they learned in class by using the Pixton site. Next, they will use the interactive white board application Show Me to illustrate and explain a food web that consists of the sun and at least six organisms (producers, consumers and decomposers). Then, the students will apply their learning by participating in a class podcast discussing the widespread effects of change in an ecosystem by using the Voicethread site. Here is the link to Pixton: @http://www.pixton.com/ Here is the link to Show Me: [] Here is the link to Voicethread: []

__Publishing Tool:__ Students will publish their completed projects on the classroom social networking site Edmodo using the code: 0h5x7l to join. Here is the link to Edmodo: @http://www.edmodo.com/home

__Rubric:__ Student's completed projects from this Life Science Unit will be graded using a rubric created in Google Docs. ||