This year-long curriculum includes 10 full units of study in Environmental Science for students in grades 5-10 and over 150 interactive lessons of about 50 minutes each. Many exciting projects are spread throughout that will require additional time. Each unit contains a slideshow road map that delivers a truly interactive science experience. Students follow the slideshow with a printed or digital work bundle that chronologically follows daily lessons. As the teacher advances through the slideshow, students fill-in critical class notes (red colored slides), answer questions, complete diagrams, take built-in quizzes, visit video links, and much more. Exciting activities are spread throughout, and visuals in the slideshow and work bundle make set-up, and follow-up questions a snap. Lesson planning just becomes staying ahead of the class with a simple materials list. The slideshows and work bundle are designed to work together, and keeps the learning organized. Students quickly learn how the lessons run and fall into a productive routine. Besides exciting and meaningful activities, units have built-in quizzes, review games / assessments, amazing video links, step by step diagrams, graphing exercises, fun projects, answer keys, crosswords, flashcards, rubrics, self-reflection, and much more. Everything you will ever need to run an amazing year of science is included.

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Part 1 Ecology Feeding Levels Unit: This unit includes 13 lessons (50 minutes each) and 22 pages of printable work bundle. This unit explores the concept "There's No Such Thing as a Free Lunch." Student learn the 6 big concepts in Eco Literacy, How energy flows through the food chain, feeding groups, producers, consumers, decomposers, the aquatic food chain, bioaccumulation, biomagnification, animal dentition, biomass pyramids, pyramids of numbers, and much more. Some exciting outdoor activities about food chains, and biomagnification of pollution make this unit a student favorite. This is a fantastic unit for any science classroom. 

 

Part 2 Ecology Interactions Unit: This unit includes 3 Parts and 30 lessons (50 minutes each) and 68 pages of printable work bundles. This first part explores Levels of Biological Organization, Biodiversity, Importance of Maintaining Biodiversity, Earth's Spheres, Sphere Interactions, Habitat's, Niches, Population Growth, Competition, Food Webs, Predatory Prey Cycles, and more. A how the Sphere's are connected project is included. Part 2 explores relative abundance, biodiversity, camouflage, and mimicry. This is a visually stunning part of the unit and includes a fun camouflage an animal in the school project. Part 3 Explores Symbiosis, Parasites, Mutualisms, Animal Plant Interactions, and Invasive Exotic Species and much more. The Parasite project, and WANTED Exotic Species Project are so much fun.

 

 

Part 3 Ecology Abiotic Factors Unit. This unit is broken into two parts. Part 1 is all about the non-living / abiotic factors in ecology, organisms range of tolerance, temperature and desert adaptations, hypothermia, hyperthermia, warm and cold bloodedness, water, seed dispersal, island biogeography, seed dispersal, wind, fire ecology, and an amazing Isopod lab if interested. This part has 13 lessons of about 50 minutes, and 30 page work bundle. Part 2 includes 14 lessons of about 50 minutes and explores the biogeochemical cycles, carbon cycle, photosynthesis, respiration, water cycle, phosphorous cycle, nitrogen cycle, nutrient pollution, eutrophication, acids, and acid rain. A 24 page work bundle chronologically follows the entire learning experience. 

 

 

Part 4 is all about Soil, Erosion, Coastal Erosion, and Soil Conservation. This unit is broken into 3 parts and includes 22 lessons of 50 minutes and over 40 pages of work bundle that follow each lesson. Students learn all about soil and the importance of soil. The coastal erosion portion has students design features to prevent coastal erosion in a wave tank. The soil conservation part has students design a farm with soil conservation practices.

 

 

Part 5 is about Earth's Biomes and includes 4 lessons of about 50 minutes, and 9 page work bundle that has students fill-in critical notes, research and perform a skit about biomes, answer questions, interpret graphs, includes games, built-in quizzes and much more. 

 

 

Part 6 is about Ecological Succession and includes a lesson about Fire Ecology. This unit consists of 8 lessons of about 50 minutes and 19 page work bundle. An optional outdoor project is also included. Everything can be uploaded to Google Classroom if you wish and arrives editable. 

 

 

Part 7 is about Water on Earth, Water Conservation, Groundwater, and Groundwater Pollution. This part includes 9 lesson and 21 page work bundle. Students explore waters locations on earth, water as a resource, water conservation, groundwater depletion, and groundwater pollution. There's a case study of love canal, reading and plenty more spread throughout. 

 

 

Part 8 is a Rivers, Lakes, and Water Quality Unit. This unit includes 3 Parts and 20+ lessons (50 minutes each) and 53 pages of printable work bundles. Part 1 is all about Rivers and Watersheds and students use stream tables with simple materials and identify parts of a river, design a river project, explore watersheds, and much more as they move through the work bundle. Part 2 Explores Water Quality and works students through a river study with lab report extension if interested. Students learn and collect data about physical, chemical, and biological features of a river including an extensive section on benthic macroinvertebrates. This is a fantastic section, especially if you have a local stream that you can collect data from. Part 3 Explores Flooding, Wetlands, Dams and Salmon. This section includes the Dam Debate where students choose characters in a fictitious town and write a persuasive speech about a local waterway being dammed up. They explore the positives and negatives of hydroelectric dams and dress up in character for the town meeting. This unit concludes learning about salmon. 

 

 

Part 9 is about Climate Change. This bundle includes 6 lessons of about 50 minutes, and 17 page work bundle that has students fill-in critical notes, conduct activities, answer questions, interpret graphs, includes games, and provides opportunities for meaningful movies that diagnosis and offer solutions to climate change. The work bundle chronologically follows the detailed slideshow for an amazing learning experience. This particular slideshow is one of my most detailed as this topic is of special concern to me. A 20 question quiz game concludes the learning for a great review and assessment. A writable .pdf of the work bundle and answer keys are provided. Everything is provided to run a meaningful unit on this important topic. 

 

 

Part 10 is a nice conclusion to the year and chance to show some growth with some more challenging content. This unit consists of 11 lessons of about 50 minutes and 25 pages of printable work bundle. This unit paints a clear message that the environment and its life sustaining systems are in a state of peril. It will also describe that our current relationship with the environment is out of balance. The unit will highlight a number of environmental problems, provide solutions / alternatives, challenge current systems, and discuss the importance of achieving sustainable systems. This unit focuses on key themes in environmental studies. This lesson bundle begins discussing how matter can be recycled but energy cannot. A nice design a sustainable home project is included which will take several days. The students use Google Sketch-Up which is a nice free program to learn computer animated drawing, and sustainable architecture. 

 

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