Ecosystems and Their Interactions: Matter, Energy, and the Web of Life

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Grade: 6
Title: Ecosystems and Its Interactions: Matter, Energy, and the Web of Life
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Students will be skilled at developing and using models (food webs, matter cycle diagrams) to trace the movement of matter and the flow of energy through an ecosystem.
Students will be skilled at constructing evidence-based arguments about how changes to one component of an ecosystem affect other populations and processes within it.
Q1. Develop a model to describe the cycling of matter and flow of energy among living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem, focusing on the roles of producers, consumers, and decomposers.
Q2. Construct an argument supported by empirical evidence that changes to physical or biological components of an ecosystem affect populations, demonstrating how matter cycles and energy flows through the system.
Q3. Evaluate competing design solutions for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services, using evidence and reasoning about how disruptions to matter cycling affect the whole system.

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