Week 1: Define biodiversity, provide examples of diversity, create trophic pyramids, and simulate food webs.

Week 2: Play Ecosystem tag, to simulate the movement of nutrients, and explain decomposition.

Week 3: Define the different types of symbiotic relationships in detail.

Week 4: Expand on symbiotic Relationships and introduce concept of competition.

Week 5: Explain the individual parts of the carbon cycle, create a group drawing.

Week 6: Explain feedback loops and combine parts of carbon cycle for an individual project.

Lesson Planning Template 2.29.16 – I have attached this set of lesson plans here to describe the template I began to use throughout the unit.

Lesson Planning Template 4.4.16 – This set show how I used this tool as I improved over time.

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