Ecology covers the interactions between plants and animals and their environment.
Students will be working with examples and non-examples to arrive at the topic of living vs non-living things.
Students will be working with examples and non-examples to arrive at the topic of invertebrates vs vertebrates.
Students will determine which desert bird is not like the others.
Students will determine which type of penguin is not like the others.
Who will win in a tournament of eight plants with Interesting adaptations!?
Students will determine which type of ant is not like the others.
Which animal has the most interesting, most valuable, or strangest adaptations?
Students will determine which snake of the rainforest is not like the others.
Which of these deserts is not like the others?
Which of these rainforests is not like the others?
Which of these four birds is not like the others?
Students will be working with examples and non-examples to deduce the topic of nocturnal vs diurnal animals.
Sure, students might know the difference between a producer and a consumer… but have they considered how they feel about each other? What, in a producer's opinion, are the pros and cons of a consumer?
Students will determine which creature of the tundra is not like the others.
Want to move beyond memorizing the characteristics of biomes? In this lesson, students work through a Tournament of Biomes, explaining which biome wins in each round (based on criteria you choose). In the end, they crown a 👑 Champion Biome!
Your students will create a new flower, designed to attract a specific pollinator.
Move the typical biome study way up Bloom's Taxonomy and have students create their own extinct creature featuring realistic adaptations based on plants and animals that actually live in the biome. Bonus task? Classify it into the appropriate kingdom, phylum, class, and so on!