Take your Ecosystems and Biomes Unit to the next level with an Animal Research Project that can incorporate Project Based Learning! This resource allows you to choose the focus of your students' research: organisms/animals, habitats, biomes, or ecosystems. With the support of the Ecosystems research graphic organizers, your students will be ready to create a mobile museum that includes a research paper, slideshow presentation, 2D or 3D model of their organism, and/or a mural/backdrop of their ecosystem. These materials provide students with lots of opportunities to draw pictures and create diagrams, as well as record factual information and details about habitats, ecosystems, organisms, and their chosen animal.
Included in Ecosystems Project Based Learning Booklet:
✔ 23+ notebooking pages
✔ Student research booklet pages focusing on:
- Habitats, Ecosystems, Biomes, and Abiotic and Biotic factors
✔ To develop an in-depth understanding of a specific organism, students research the organism's:
- Niche (carnivore, omnivore, herbivore)
- Adaptations (physical and behavioral)
- Food chains and food webs specific to the organism's environment
- Interactions with other organisms (symbiosis-parasitism, commensalism, mutualism)
✔ Extension pages on the following topics:
- Comparing and contrasting two organisms
- Human Impact (positive and negative effects)
- Changes affecting the organism and it's habitat over time
✔ Directions for a Project Based Learning component:
- Details and steps for implementing the research project as a project-based unit
- Photos of example projects
- Suggested driving questions
- Letter from the "museum" for launching the project (editable version included)
- Close-reading comprehension questions to accompany the letter (editable version included)
- Student requirements for the project (editable version included)
- Lists of organisms to research organized by biome
- Written student reflection for post-project (editable version included)
- Grading rubric (editable version included)
- List of potential resources for your students to use as they research
✔ A bonus file of cover-pages for each of the 50 States (US)
- Perfect if your standards require you to teach about your individual state's ecosystems and habitats!
YOU WILL RECEIVE A ZIPPED FILE CONTAINING:
- Ecosystems/Biomes Research Booklet - printable PDF
- Ecosystems Google Slides - linked PDF
- Editable Letter and Rubric - PPT
- 50 US States Cover Pages - printable PDF
- Ecosystems Recommended Research Websites - PDF with link to Google Doc
This Resource is Included in This Discounted Bundle:
- Science Research Bundle - Save 20%!
Copyright © Tammy Roose, Tarheelstate Teacher
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