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Interdependant Relationships in Ecosystems- Life Science
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- Construct an argument with evidence that in a habitat, some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all and explore their schoolyard to collect evidence.
- Identify living and non-living organisms in a stream sample ecosystem.
- Construct an argument that some animals form groups that help members survive.
- Evaluate the effects that changes in the Chesapeake Bay have had on living and non-living things in the ecosystem.
- Use the Engineering and Design Process to design a tank ecosystem in their classroom.
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- Construct an explanation of speed by observing how timing and distance effect speed to determine the speed of an object is related to the energy of an object.
- Students will identify cause and effect relationships by experimenting with model car ramps to explain changes in speed.
- Observe that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.
- Create, build, and diagram working circuits
- Identify and describe renewable resources and how they impact the environment. Some resources are renewable and others are
- Use the engineering and design process to develop a plan and engineer a solar oven in order to prove that energy can be transformed from one form to another.
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- Identify parts of a wave and communicate how force impacts physical waves and sound waves.
- Develop a model of waves to describe patterns in terms of amplitude and wavelength and that waves can cause objects to move.
- Develop a model of waves to describe patterns in terms of amplitude and wavelength and that waves can cause objects to move
- Use the Engineering and Design Process to generate and compare multiple solutions that use patterns to transfer information.
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