Biology - EC: BIO.B.4.2.3
Biology - EC: BIO.B.4.2.3
Continuum of Activities
The list below represents a continuum of activities: resources categorized by Standard/Eligible Content that teachers may use to move students toward proficiency. Using LEA curriculum and available materials and resources, teachers can customize the activity statements/questions for classroom use.
This continuum of activities offers:
- Instructional activities designed to be integrated into planned lessons
- Questions/activities that grow in complexity
- Opportunities for differentiation for each student’s level of performance
Related Academic Standards / Eligible Content
Activities
- In an ecosystem, what happens to the atoms of certain chemical elements such as carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen?
- Can energy be recycled in an ecosystem?
- What gasses make up the oxygen cycle?
- What are two carbon compounds that make up the carbon cycle?
- When water infiltrates (soaks into) the soil and enters the lakes, what step in the water cycle has been skipped?
- When water infiltrates (soaks into) the soil and enters a lake, what is the next step in the water cycle?
- Carbon-based molecules are recycled by plants and animals in the carbon cycle. What processes of the carbon cycle can be accomplished by plants?
- Carbon-based molecules are recycled by plants and animals in the carbon cycle. What processes of the carbon cycle can be accomplished by animals?
- Native Americans plant fish bones in a field when they plant corn seeds. Explain how the fish contributes to the soil.
Answer Key/Rubric
- They are recycled.
- No it cannot.
- O2 and CO2
- Glucose, carbon dioxide
- Runoff
- Evaporation
- Photosynthesis and respiration
- Respiration only
- Acceptable answers include, but are not limited to:
- The fish bones will be broken down by bacteria and will supply minerals to the soil for the corn.
