TCI Ecosystems

Unit 2: Ecosystems

Lesson 2: Interactions Within Ecosystems - Day 3

Outcome: SWBAT continue identifying interactions within ecosystems and begin preparing for an ecosystems quiz

Initial Activity: Entrance Ticket - Review: Producer, consumer, or decomposer?
Directions:
1. On an index card, write your name.
2. Next, write the numbers 1 through 5 on the left hand side
3. For each image, you will write producer, consumer or
decomposer

Ecosystems Unit

Lesson 2: Interactions Within Ecosystems - Day 3

Outcome: SWBAT continue identifying the interactions within Ecosystems and prepare for an upcoming quiz.

Initial Activity: Entrance Ticket! Review - Consumer, Producer or Decomposer?

1. Prepare an index card with your name.
2. On the left hand side, write the numbers 1 through 5.
3. For each image, write consumer, producer or decomposer.

Consumer, Producer or Decomposer?

Consumer, Producer or Decomposer?

Consumer, Producer or Decomposer?

Consumer, Producer or Decomposer?

Consumer, Producer or Decomposer?

Investigation

Where does the energy in ecosystems come from?

Match

Match the following

• Organisms that use an outside energy source such as the sun to create their own food
• Organisms that cannot make their own food and must eat other organisms

• Organisms that feed on wastes and other dead organisms

Producers

Consumers

Decomposers

• Producers
• Consumers

• Decomposers

Categorize

Options (10)

eat other organisms for energy

energy from the sun

an oak tree

photosynthesis

make their own food

do not make their own food

an eagle

mushrooms

worms

feed on wastes and dead organisms

Organize these options into the right categories

producer

consumer

decomposer

Work Period

Complete the Interactions Within Ecosystems Graphic Organizer!
Use the textbook pages 266 and 267
Use laptops for images of each category to draw!

Work Period

Ecosystems Quiz Prep!

Homework

Study for your Ecosystems Quiz
Study your vocabulary
Use the Quizizz in Google Classroom
Quiz is tomorrow!