Grades 7-8
What Makes Up an Ecosystem?
Author: April Baker
Organization: Texas A&M University
Topic: Ecosystems
Grade Level: 8th
Time Frame: 50 minutes
Overview: Student created ecosystems and food web.
Purpose: The students will be able to develop a model of an ecosystem in a cooperative learning group.
Let's Create an Ecosystem
Author: Cedric Wesley
Organization: Texas A&M University
Topic: Ecosystems
Grade Level: 7th
Time Frame: Four 30-minute class periods.
Purpose: Introduce students to the concept of ecosystems by allowing student to create their own ecosystem in a jar.
Insect Travel Brochure
Author: Kristine Russell
Organization: Texas A&M University
Topic: Insects
Grade Level: 7th Grade
Time Frame: 2-3 days
Overview: This activity is intended to help students in understanding habitat, the different producers and consumers within a habitat, and how different organisms interact.
Purpose: The student will become familiar with concepts of: autotroph, heterotroph, producer, consumer, herbivore, carnivore, and omnivore.
