Biome Puzzle Actvity

Instructions…

-Grab a puzzle piece

-Find the rest of your group members

-Build your puzzle and read the facts

Discuss

-What Biome did you have?

-What is a biome?

-With your group, choose three of the most interesting facts you read about your biome

-What do those facts suggest about your biome?

Trophic Levels: Popcorn Lab

Big Idea

All organisms need energy and matter to live and grow.

Focus Question

What happens to energy as it moves through the trophic levels?

Engagement

Word Wall

Trophic Levels

Primary Consumers

Sun SecondaryConsumers

Energy Tertiary Consumers

Producers Quaternary Consumers

Kit Inventory

Prediction or Hypothesis

Examples that can be used.

If _______ then, _______ because_____________.

I think that ________ because ________________.

Operational Plan

Energy Lost Counter

Energy Kept Counter

Energy Passers (3)

Recorder

Name of Student

Job Description

This student will count the popcorn that falls on the floor after the popcorn has been passed to the next trophic level (cup) and tell the recorder

This student will count the popcorn that remains in each cup after the popcorn has been passed to the next trophic level (cup) and tell the recorder

These students will pass the popcorn from one trophic level to the next (one cup to the next) starting with the largest and descending.

This student will record the data during the demonstration/lab.

Operational Plan

Collecting Data

-As a group, decide how you are going to collect your data.

-Remember, you must write down the energy kept, and the energy

lost for each trophic level.

-Be ready to share what your group came up with and why they chose this method in 10 minutes.

Class Data

Group Energy Kept Energy Lost

Enter your group name

(Number of Popcorn Pieces)

(Number of Popcorn Pieces)

P PC SC TC QC P PC SC TC QC

Class Average

Graph It…

Claims and Evidence

Claims Evidence

Concluding Paragraph

Topic SentenceIn this investigation we studied….(remember our focus question)

Claim One (C1)Our first claim is…

Evidence One (E1)I reached this claim because…

Claim Two (C2)We also found…

Evidence Two (E2)Our data supported this because…

Claim Three (C3)The last claim we reached …

Evidence Three (E3)We believe this because…

Conclusion SentenceWe originally thought……, we now know…..

Sources of error…

Making Meaning (any add in)

100%

10%

-.001%

.01%

.1%

1%

Reflection

Today our big idea was _______________.

How does what we learned today apply to the big idea?

What other questions do you have about this topic?

Think of a biome that you know about, how can you relate what you learned today to the biome that you are already familiar with.