How can we study the living world?

• Bedrijfseconomie
• Basisschool
• Groep 4

10 minutes of reading

How can we study the living world?

Recap of last time and what are we doing today

We're busy with ecosystems

Perspective of an environmental scientist:

Statement of inquiry:

Scientists have developed methods and tools to understand and maintain the interactions that keep ecosystems in balance.

Learner profile focus

This unit focuses on the thinker learner profile

You know a little about ecosystems from last lesson(s)

In what way is this learner profile represented?

Key words to help you along: 

- Creative thinking, 

-Analyzing complex situations, 

- Making reasoned, ethical decisions

What makes an ecosystem?

Think - Pair - Share

ATL skills -> Creative-thinking

Go to page 98 and 99 of your MYP-1 book and look at pictures 5.6, 5.7, 5.8 and 5.9. Try to come up with a definition of what needs to be present in an ecosystem.

First: make a list of things you see.

Second: Then try to define what an ecosystem is using these observations.

Recap basic knowledge

Open up lessonup on your laptop and login using the code below.

Which food chain is written correctly?

1. 1
2. 2
3. 3
4. 4

A snake is a(n) ...

1. Biotic factor
2. Abiotic factor

An egg is a(n) ...

1. Biotic factor
2. Abiotic factor

Examples of abiotic factors include:

1. Weather, birds, plants, and animals
2. Rocks, reptiles, shrubs, trees, and grasses
3. Weather, wind, rain, sunlight, and rocks
4. Birds, plants, animals, reptiles, shrubs, trees, and grasses

Primary consumers ALWAYS eat:

1. Plants
2. Plankton
3. Producers
4. Secondary consumers

What is the difference between a food chain and a food web?

Why is it always producers that are at the start of a food chain / food web?

With reference to the following statements about a woodland ecosystem.
Which statement describes a community?

1. All the oak trees
2. All the plants
3. All the plants and animals

Organisms that only eat plants are called

1. herbivores
2. omnivores
3. scavengers
4. carnivores

In the food web shown which organism would be called an omnivore?

1. Grasshopper
2. Frog
3. Mouse
4. Fungus

Producer

Primary consumer

Secondary consumer

Tertiary consumer

End of Lessonup

Grab your jotter / notebook

What is a healthy ecosystem

We will take a look at something you're more familiar with first in terms of health. Group dynamics!

We will flex our Reflection ATL skills by filling in the table presented to you on page 104: Table 5.10

Copy this table into your jotter / notebook and fill it in!

Key Concept: Systems!

For next time

We will start our Winogradsky Columns

 You need to decide on the mud you want to have a look at.

Global context: Scientific and Technical Innovation?

Also: Do step 1 of The Activity: 3-2-1 bridge! on page 105