1) Complete fact sheet on your organism (passed out in class on Friday).- see below for this document.
2) Complete a sketch (on large paper) of the habitat ( the landscape scene for your particular organism, and place the 4-5 members of the food chain in this sketch. This will be your first draft of what your poster - or your diorama - will look like. Both you and your partner need to make one; you'll share your ideas in class on Tuesday.
Here is the "fact sheet" :
Partner names:
______________________and____________________
10/5/2012
Science: Ecosystem of a River
“Key Facts about our organism for the
Food Chain Project”
Directions: Part 1.
Before you can begin your design for your Food Chain presentation,
you and your partner must become an expert on your organism! Answer
the following questions by using books, encyclopedias and resources
found on the internet. Include the source of your information for
each fact. You may not use Wikipedia for your entire body of
facts. When you have completed researching the required
information, bring your work to me for approval, and you can go on to
Part II.
Part 1. Key Information
1.Our organism to research in depth is:
__________________________________
- It's two-word “scientific name”: __________________________________
source is:
_____________________________________________________________
3. Your organism's
Habitat ( the particular environment in which it lives):
a) general river
habitat: Terrestrial, Aquatic or Benthic?
___________________________
b)
it's specific environment: paint a picture for us a
typical surrounding for
this plant or animal, in which you are likely to find this creature
or plant. Your organism lives in a “community” of other
organisms.
Example:
a stonefly has a benthic river habitat. In particular, it is found in
clear, cold, flowing, highly-oxygenated freshwater. It is often
found on the river bottom attached to a rock, and there are leaves
and sticks nearby that it uses for its food (it's a “shredder”).
Typical leaves in the habitat would come from a maple or birch tree.
It's coloring matches the coloring of it's surroundings, the color of
the river's bed.
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sources for this
are :
- Find out a typical food chain for your organism, and this food chain must be one that would be found in the ecosystems of the Northeastern United States, and that have a river connection!
Food chain (must be
4- 5 organisms):
______________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
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Sources used for
this information:
Part
II. Once Part I is complete, come to me for approval. If approved,
take a large sheet of drawing paper, and, using the information about
your organism's habitat,
design a preliminary sketch
of the habitat that your
food chain inhabits.
HOMEWORK
(due Tuesday, Oct. 9):
1)Complete this fact sheet, and
a preliminary sketch of the habitat. This is the design that might
go on your poster, or be the design of your diorama. You
and your partner should each have a preliminary sketch.
It must include :
a)4 details of the
landscape(example: remember your pencil sketches of the river?
Landscape, water, plant; pencil is fine for this stage),
b)show the river,
and
c)show
the placement (with a label at least) for where the organisms could
be in your sketch!
2) if you are
making a diorama, you must also bring in a box (2 shoebox size boxes
is the minimum size for your diorama!), or other medium to large size
boxes – check Big Y, Coopers, State Street market, Shop Rite) for
your diorama.
Have with you to
take home today:
1) this fact sheet
- a large piece of drawing paper
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