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MLP #5

Grade Level:
7
Subject:
Science
Topic:
Systems & Interactions versus Sustainability & Stewardship
Objective:
The objective of this lesson is to have students realize that sustainability and stewardship in human beings has an effect on systems and the interactions of these systems. This will be done by having student's create their own ecosystem on the school grounds (a composter) and investigate how the biotic and abiotic components of the composter work together in the ecosystem. This will be done over time where student's continually check on and investigate the composter. This lesson will focus on how students are making the connections AFTER all of the work for the composter activity has been done. From this students will then evaluate how methods like composting that are intended to protect the environment are actually doing based on their conclusions from how the abiotic and biotic factors interact in their composter. In future lessons, student's should then be able to make an objective opinion about other methods in their life (i.e. recycling, pest management, controlling water in natural waterways for electricity) and how they affect different systems and the interactions between them.
Prep:
-book chromebooks
Materials:
-whiteboard
-whiteboard markers
-whiteboard erasers
-chromebooks