Suggested Age: All Ages
• Hands-On Activities & Engaging Graphics Providing an Understanding of Key NGSS Disciplinary Core Ideas!
• Life Science
Provide students with the conceptual framework to comprehend key NGSS topics and achieve Performance Expectations! Using two-dimensional modeling activities, students learn to explain, rather than memorize, key concepts and use their simplified two-dimensional model representations to make predictions. Looks at Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems and the Matter and Energy Transfer in Ecosystems to answer: What is the roll of plants in all food webs?; How are animals and plants related in food webs?; What is the roll of the decomposer in the food webs?; and What effect can newly introduced species have on an ecosystem?