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Reporting Category 4: Organisms & Environments (14 questions)

5.9A-RS

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Observe the way organisms live and survive in their ecosystem by interacting with the living and non-living elements

Global Shark Tracker (navigation on left of screen)

Eagle Cam (Live)

Niche

Key Vocabulary:

1)    Ecosystem

2)    Environment

3)    Organisms

4)    Community

5)    Population

6)    Producer

7)    Consumer

8)    Decomposer

Brainpop: Ecosystems

Brainpop: Desserts

Study Jams - Aquatic Ecosystems

Study Jams - Biomes

camouflage: brainpop

Brainpop Amphibians

insects: brainpop

ants: brainpop

Study Jams - Symbiosis

5.9B-RS

Describe how the flow of energy derived from the Sun, used by producers to create their own food, is transferred through a food chain and food web to consumers and decomposers

food chains: brainpop, BBC, game 

Study Jams - Photosynthesis

Study Jams - Food Chains

Study Jams - Food Webs

5.9C-SS

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Predict the effects of changes in ecosystems caused by living organisms, including humans, such as the overpopulation of grazers or the building of highways

Study Jams - Changes in Ecosystems

Brainpop - Humans and the Environment

Brainpop - Population Growth

Brainpop - Our Fragile Environment

5.9D-SS

Identify the significance of the carbon dioxide-oxygen cycle to the survival of plants and animals

StudyJams - Carbon Cycle

5.10A-RS

Compare the structures and functions of different species that help them live and survive such as hooves on prairie animals or webbed feet in aquatic animals

Study Jams - Animal Adaptations

Study Jams - Plant Adaptations

Steve's Adaptations page in Japan.

Brainpop - Insect Adaptations

5.10B-RS 

An inherited trait is a trait or characteristic that is genetically passed down (inherited) from generation to generation. Examples include:

• dimples
• tongue rolling
• toe length (longer first or second toe)
• left-thumbed or right-thumbed when interlocking fingers (which is on top)
• earlobes that are attache or unattached
• eye color
• fur color
• ear shape (ex. in dogs)
• hair or fur texture
• leaf shape
• spines on a cactus
• color of flower petals or fruit
• shape of a bird's beak

• a child riding a bike
• reading
• speaking a foreign language
• playing music
• playing a game or sport
• animals learning tricks
• hunting prey
• playing fetch

In case you are curious, 

• Acquired Traits or Acquired Characteristics are things such as scars, amputations, or tattoos.
• Instincts are innate capacity of an animal to respond to a given stimuli, such as a spider spinning a web, a flower growing toward a light source, or a bear hibernating for the winter.

Differentiate between inherited traits of plants and animals such as spines on a cactus or shape of a beak and learned behaviors such as an animal learning tricks or a child riding a bicycle

Watch Ugly Duckling on PBS. See more from Folk Tales, Fairy Tales & Fables.

behaviors (instinct, learned): brainpop, BBC

Owl Moon by Jane Yolen - nisd236 research

Brainpop: Hibernation

Brainpop: Migration

Ollie the Lamb - From a Vermont Friend

5.10C-SS

Describe the differences between complete and incomplete metamorphosis of insects

Brainpop - Metamorphosis 

3.9A-SS

Observe and describe the physical characteristics of environments and how they support populations and communities within an ecosystem

Study Jams - Ecosystems

Brainpop - Ecosystems 

3.10C-SS

Ladybugs have COMPLETE METAMORPHOSIS.

(egg, larva, pupa, adult)

Investigate and compare how animals and plants undergo a series of orderly changes in their diverse life cycles such as tomato plants, frogs, and lady bugs

Bill Nye - Life Cycle

Study Jams - Life Cycles 

Brainpop - Amphibians

One Tiny Turtle (0.5 AR Points) - 597.92 DAV

Complete Metamorphosis