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Biology - EC: BIO.B.4.2.3

Biology - EC: BIO.B.4.2.3

Continuum of Activities

Continuum of Activities

The list below represents a continuum of activities: resources categorized by Standard/Eligible Content that teachers may use to move students toward proficiency. Using LEA curriculum and available materials and resources, teachers can customize the activity statements/questions for classroom use.

This continuum of activities offers:

  • Instructional activities designed to be integrated into planned lessons
  • Questions/activities that grow in complexity
  • Opportunities for differentiation for each student’s level of performance

Activities

  1. In an ecosystem, what happens to the atoms of certain chemical elements such as carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen?

  2. Can energy be recycled in an ecosystem?

  3. What gasses make up the oxygen cycle?
  1. What are two carbon compounds that make up the carbon cycle?

  2. When water infiltrates (soaks into) the soil and enters the lakes, what step in the water cycle has been skipped?

  3. When water infiltrates (soaks into) the soil and enters a lake, what is the next step in the water cycle?

  4. Carbon-based molecules are recycled by plants and animals in the carbon cycle. What processes of the carbon cycle can be accomplished by plants?

  5. Carbon-based molecules are recycled by plants and animals in the carbon cycle. What processes of the carbon cycle can be accomplished by animals?
  1. Native Americans plant fish bones in a field when they plant corn seeds. Explain how the fish contributes to the soil.

Answer Key/Rubric

  1. They are recycled.

  2. No it cannot.

  3. O2 and CO2
  1. Glucose, carbon dioxide

  2. Runoff

  3. Evaporation

  4. Photosynthesis and respiration

  5. Respiration only
  1. Acceptable answers include, but are not limited to:
  • The fish bones will be broken down by bacteria and will supply minerals to the soil for the corn.
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