The Common Core Series is the 2014 winner of the Smart Book Award from Academics’ Choice.
How to Use the
Ecosystems - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
• Work through the lessons and activities as a class to teach your students higher-order thinking, analysis, and 21st century skills necessary to meet new Common Core expectations.
• Allow students to work through the lessons independently to build and practice these new skills.
• Include technology, collaboration, presentations, and discussion in the activities as you desire - you can decide how in-depth to go.
• Watch your class develop new abilities to meet the rigor of Common Core State Standards, right before your eyes!
Click
HERE to view sample pages from this book.
Tips:
• Use some of the pages - or use them all - based on your grade, your students, your curriculum, and your needs.
• Use these pages at their current size, or if you prefer them to be 8.5" X 11", enlarge them 125% on your copy machine.
• To download the graphic organizers labeled "GO" in the Table of Contents click
HERE.
• Use the correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson.
Here is the Table of Contents for the
Ecosystems - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:What is an Ecosystem?: Reading Informational Text
Producers: Concepts & Processes
Consumers: Applying Concepts G
Decomposers: Reading Informational Text
Nonliving Parts of Ecosystems: Reading Informational Text
Parts of an Ecosystem: Main Idea Organizer G
Flow of Energy: Graphic Organizer G
A Food Web: Applying Concepts G
Analysis of an Ecosystem: Graphic Organizer G
Aquatic Ecosystems: Reading Informational Text
Home on the Prairie: Inference
Forest Ecosystems: Comparison of Primary Sources G
Life in the Desert: Reading Informational Text
Human Environments: Primary Source Analysis
Threats to an Ecosystem: Problem-Solution-Results GO9
Ecosystem at Risk: Primary Source Analysis
Change over Time: Succession: Reading Informational Text
Ecosystems Vocabulary: Vocabulary GO10
Common Core Correlations
G: Includes Graphic Organizer
GO: Graphic Organizer is also available 8.5" x 11" online download
HERE.
(numbers above correspond to the graphic organizer numbers online)