Lab Week 5

One thing that I learned this week was the difference between habitats, ecosystems, and biomes. A biome is like a large scale ecosystem, an ecosystem is community of living and nonliving things that interact with each other in a specific environment, and a habitat is the specific place where a particular community of organisms live. One way I can apply this to my teaching is to differentiate similar vocabulary words when teaching a lesson like this by creating an activity where my students can create some type of model showing how biomes, ecosystems, and habitats interact and how they are different. One question I have is about the food chains. If only 10% of energy is retained, how do third-level consumers eat enough food that they can be sustained if they are usually very large animals? Does this high amount of food intake hurt the rest of the levels because they have to eat so much?

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  1. BrookeFebruary 15, 2023 at 8:07 AM

    Hi Brenna, you got such a good picture of the progress of our butterfly! I too learned a lot about the differences between biomes, ecosystems, and habitats. I think you ask very good questions about the levels of energy consumed.

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  2. Anne GuestFebruary 15, 2023 at 12:01 PM

    Hi Brenna, I like your fast-growing plant, it has flowers! Ours is super close to having flowers. Your activity with vocabulary words would be very effective for the students to learn during this time. It would be great for this activity to be a starting point and then getting into the lesson. It would expand their learning and reflect back to those vocab words as prior knowledge. Lastly, I like your question and I wonder if it has to do with everything the third consumer consumes.

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  3. Taylor HospodarskyFebruary 16, 2023 at 11:34 AM

    Hi Brenna, great blog post! I liked your idea about differentiating vocabulary words when teaching a lesson. I think that making models is a great way for students to learn and apply the material.

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  4. Lexi MooreFebruary 19, 2023 at 5:17 PM

    Hi Brenna! I love the picture of your butterfly, you got a great picture of it up and moving. I also learned a lot i did not know about ecosystems. It was nice to get a refresher as well as new information on a topic I learned about years ago.

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