Date         Lesson                            Objective  

9-Nov	Pre-Test; Wildlife Treasure Hunt; New COTW	Students will individually demonstrate how much they already know about ecology by performing their best on the pretest.  Students will individually demonstrate an understanding that wildlife is present, even if you can't see it, by finding and documenting evidence of some.
10-Nov	Vocab	Students will individually record vocabulary terms, definitions, and pictures for a reference later.
11-Nov	Oh Deer!	Students will demonstrate an understanding of the effects of limiting factors on a population of animals by participating in and graphing the Oh Deer activity.
12-Nov	TAKS Writing
13-Nov	Effects of Human Intervention; Predator/Prey Graphs	Students will demonstrate an understanding of how to interpret a food web by correctly completing The Effects of Human Intervention on a Food Web activity. Students will demonstrate an understanding of how organisms affect each other by correctly analyzing the predator/prey graphs.

 

16-Nov	Ecosystem Jobs	Students will demonstrate an understanding of the jobs organisms have and how they interact with each other.
17-Nov	Succession Comic Strip	Students will demonstrate an understanding of primary and secondary succession by individually making a comic strip that correctly includes succession in it.
18-Nov	Camoflauge Simulations	Students will demonstrate an understanding of camouflage and mimicry by exploring the given websites individually and correctly completing the activities on them.
19-Nov	Frozen Critters	Students will demonstrate an understanding of the importance of adaptations in predator/prey relationships by playing quick frozen critters and discussing it as a class.
20-Nov	Vocab	Students will individually record vocabulary terms, definitions, and pictures for a reference later.