Course Purpose:

Sixth grade students will use earth/space science, life science, and physical science principles to identify and describe interactions between them.

SC.6.08

Students will design a food web for an ecosystem in order to describe its relationships to biotic and abiotic factors and the impacts on the environment.

Pacing Instruct/Assess

Component Code

Component

Standard(s)

SC.6.08.01

Define then compare and contrast biotic and abiotic Factors in an ecosystem.

MS-LS2-4

MS-LS2-1

MS-LS2-3

SC.6.08.02

Identify competition between organisms and the factors organisms interact with in their environment.

MS-LS2-1

MS-LS2-3

MS-LS2-4

SC.6.08.03

Identify relationships between organisms (symbiotic, competitive, predation).

MS-LS2-1

SC.6.08.04

Succession in an ecosystem, its effects in an ecosystem causal/correlational Relationship between keystone species and its natural ecosystem (Wolf/Yellowstone).

MS-LS2-2

SC.6.08.05

Construct a food web, describing the relationships between the living organisms along with the abiotic factors.

MS-LS2-2

SC.6.08.06

Investigate and collect evidence in order to produce a claim about the rate of success in fish production through predation.

MS-LS1-4

MS-LS2-2

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