Ecology and Ecosystems Unit Bundle | Printable, Digital & Editable Components

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DISTANCE LEARNING - DIGITAL ASSIGNMENTS

This resource includes modified files that facilitate online - distance learning:

• Fillable slides designed to work with Google Slides and Microsoft PowerPoint.

• Digital Task Cards designed with Google Forms. Google Classrooms are not required.

• Digital Assessment designed with Google Forms. Google Classrooms are not required.

• Digital Laboratory Activities with fully editable versions.

Important Notes about Fillable Slides:

• Bell Ringers, Homework, Reading Passages & Digital INBs are available as fillable slides.

• Digital assignments made as PPTX files work seamlessly with Google Slides: WATCH ME

• Digital assignments CANNOT be edited. Only the text boxes or forms can be manipulated.

• Each assignment is saved as an individual file with the key removed for easy distribution.

All Digital resources can be shared via platforms that are password-protected or accessible only to students.

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This bundle includes:

• Editable PowerPoint Presentation, Scaffolded Notes and Exam

• Printable Interactive Notebook Lessons (Input Notes, INB Activities, Quizzes & Reflections)

• Digital Interactive Notebook Lessons with Editable Notes & Google Form Quizzes

• Bell Ringers, Homework & Task Cards Tiered to Bloom's Taxonomy

• Reading Passages with Comprehension Questions

• SNAPs Lab Stations Activities

• Vocabulary Activity Pack (in the works) and Word Wall Cards

• High Yield Review Sorts & Activities

• Differentiated Course and Unit Planning Guide

• Ecology PowerPoint, Notes & Exam

All items in this product are 100% EDITABLE and DIFFERENTIATED. The product includes a PowerPoint Presentation (168 differentiated slides), scaffolded notes (differentiated and modified/completed notes included) and a summative examination (differentiated and answer key included). The PowerPoint is differentiated for upper elementary and middle school students. A color-shape code is found on the upper left corner of every slide to help you differentiate concepts for your students' needs and abilities. Google App compatible slides and notes are included. A self-grading digital assessment made with Google Forms included.

• Ecology INB Unit

This differentiated interactive notebook unit is divided into INB lessons. Each lesson includes an overview with photos of the completed INB activity, one page of input notes (differentiated when necessary), at least one INB activity (key included), a 4-5 question mini assessment (key included) and a 2-part reflection exercise. Editable INB input notes are included. This INB unit includes 23 INB lessons and 28+ INB activities:

Chapter 1: What is ecology?

Chapter 2: Living vs. Nonliving Things

Chapter 3: Types of Organisms (Producer, Consumer, Decomposer)

Chapter 4: Types of Consumers

Chapter 5: The Role of the Sun

Chapter 6: Food Chains

Chapter 7: Energy Flow Through a Food Chain

Chapter 8: Energy Pyramid

Chapter 9: Ecological Relationships (Competition, Predation & Types of Symbiosis)

Chapter 10: Important Ecological Roles

Chapter 11: Nutrient Cycling (Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide & Water)

Chapter 12: Oxygen & Carbon Dioxide Cycling

Chapter 13: Water Cycle

Chapter 14: Carbon Cycle

Chapter 15: Ecological Organization

Chapter 16: Impact of Environmental Change

Chapter 17: Carrying Capacity

Chapter 18: Biomes

Chapter 19: Freshwater Ecosystems

Chapter 20: Marine Ecosystems

Chapter 21: Ecological Succession

Chapter 22: Biodiversity

Chapter 23: Why is biodiversity important?

• Ecology Digital Interactive Notebook

The digital interactive notebook is the counterpart to the printable INB unit. The notebook is separated into chapters or lessons. Each chapter includes one page of EDITABLE input notes, a digital INB activity and a two-part formative reflection. Copies of mini assessments converted to self-grading Google Forms are provided. A student and teacher notebook are included. INB chapters are saved as individual files as well.

• Ecology Bell Ringers

Differentiated and tiered 3-part activities designed to "warmup" students at the beginning of a lesson. Full and half page printing options and key included. Fillable slides that can be used with Google Classrooms and Microsoft Teams included. Activities align with INB chapters.

• Ecology Homework

Differentiated and tiered 3-part homework assignments that can be used as a formative or summative assessment. Key included. Fillable slides that can be used with Google Classrooms and Microsoft Teams included. Activities align with INB chapters.

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• Ecology Reading Passages

Differentiated reading passages with text-based evidence comprehension questions. Immersive Reader compatible documents and key included. Fillable slides that can be used with Google Classrooms and Microsoft Teams included. Activities align with INB chapters.

IMMERSIVE READER

This resource includes reading passages that can be read to a student with Microsoft’s Immersive Reader. Immersive-Reader compatible passages are read-only Word documents accessed in a web browser. Internet access required. Students are provided links to the Immersive Reader compatible passages in the printable and digital versions of each activity.

Immersive Reader is a FREE Microsoft educational tool. You do NOT need a Microsoft account to access this tool in a web browser. Learn more about Immersive Reader HERE.

Immersive Reader can:

• Read the entire passage to a student

• Help pronounce individual words in a passage as a student reads

• Translate the entire passage or individual words in the passage for ESL students

• Change the font, text color and background color for students with visual impairments

Additional Notes

• Written and video instructions for students are included: http://safesha.re/ppk

• Download a FREE unit of Immersive Reader compatible reading passages HERE.

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• Ecology Task Cards

110 differentiated and tiered task card questions to help assess your students on important concepts covered in this unit. Printable and digital task cards included. Answer sheets and key included.

DIGITAL TASK CARDS

Task cards designed to work with Google Forms included. Can be assigned to students with Google Classrooms or shared as a link with your student any way you choose. Self-grading. Digital task card questions and answers are editable. Task card images are NOT editable. Requires internet access.

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• Ecology Word Wall Cards

Each card displays a simple illustration, one vocabulary word and a short definition. Half and quarter page printing options. Color and black and white.

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• Ecology Lab Stations Activities

SNAPs Lab Stations are lab activities that require students to use science, math, literacy, problem-solving and engineering skills. The labs are designed to enhance students' understanding of scientific concepts and help students apply scientific ideas to the real world. This bundle includes ten labs:

• Animals' Food and Energy Lab Stations Activity (5-PS3-1)

• Food Chains and Webs Lab Stations Activity (5-LS2-1, MS-LS2-3)

• Energy Pyramids (MS-LS2-3)

• Ecological Relationships Lab Station Activity (MS-LS2-2)

• Nutrient Cycling Lab Station Activity (5-LS2-1)

• Carbon Cycle Lab Station Activity (MS-LS2-3)

• Impact of Environmental Change Lab (3-LS4-4)

• Carrying Capacity Lab Station Activity (MS-LS2-1)

• Ecological Succession Lab Station Activity (MS-LS2-4)

• Biodiversity Lab Station Activity (MS-LS2-5)

DIGITAL LAB ACTIVITIES

The SNAPs labs in this unit bundle are offered in a digital format (fillable slides compatible with Microsoft PP and Google Slides) to facilitate distance learning and support digital classrooms. To better support digital classrooms, the assessment station is offered as an editable, self-grading Google Form as well.

DISTANCE LEARNING COMPATIBILITY

SNAPs lab activities are rated for their ease with distance – independent learning. Refer to the preview for more information about how well each laboratory works in a fully digital classroom and with distance learning.

EDITABLE DOCUMENTS

This download includes an editable Word document (docx file) of all lab components:

• Pre-Lab and Post-Lab Activities

• The Lab Overview

• Lab Station Activities Questions

• Directed Synthesis Project (when applicable)

Important Notes:

• Diagrams, illustrations, tables and graphs essential to lab activities are editable

• Illustrative clipart is NOT editable

• Editable documents and rubrics are included with the FREE SNAPs Setup Guide

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HIGH-YIELD REVIEW ACTIVITIES

NO-PREP resources to review HIGH-YEILD topics in science! Each activity focuses on a single topic to develop mastery of that topic. Printable and digital activities and self-grading Google Forms and Easel Activities included. This bundle includes six high-yield review activities:

• Abiotic vs. Biotic Factors Review

• Nutrient Cycling Review

• Food Chains, Food Webs & Energy Pyramid Review

• Feeding Relationships Review

• Symbiotic Relationships Review

• Levels of Organization (FREE)

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• Ecology and Ecosystems Unit Planning Guide

This product includes DIFFERENTIATED and EDITABLE Excel sheets to help you plan and pace the unit. Suggestions for how to use resources and create lesson plans included.

Next Generation Science Standards

This unit bundle satisfies NGSS 3-LS4-4, 5-PS3-1, 5-LS2-1, MS-LS2-1, MS-LS2-2, MS-LS2-3, MS-LS2-4 and MS-LS2-5.

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DAILY LESSONS

Daily lessons are an economical alternative to my unit bundles. A single lesson rebundles the resources in the unit bundle for a SINGLE topic. Daily lessons do NOT include task cards, summative exams or labs. A lesson includes a bell ringer, INB Lesson, editable PP slides, editable scaffolded and modified notes, homework, reading passage and digital assignments. Links for lessons covering the topics in this unit are listed below:

• What is ecology?

• Ecological Organization

• Living vs. Nonliving Things

•The Role of the Sun

• Types of Organisms (5-PS3-1)

• Types of Consumers

• Food Chains & Webs (5-LS2-1, MS-LS2-3)

• Energy Flow through a Food Chain (MS-LS2-3)

• Energy Pyramid (MS-LS2-3)

• Important Ecological Roles

• Ecological Relationships (MS-LS2-2)

• Nutrient Cycling (5-LS2-1)

• Water Cycle (5-LS2-1)

• Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide Cycling (5-LS2-1, MS-LS2-3)

• Carbon Cycle (MS-LS2-3)

• Biomes

• Freshwater Ecosystems

• Marine Ecosystems

• Impacts of Environmental Change (3-LS4-4)

• Carrying Capacity (MS-LS2-1)

• Ecological Succession (MS-LS2-4)

• Biodiversity (MS-LS2-5)

• Why is biodiversity important? (MS-LS2-5)

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