SNC1DBiology – Sustainable Ecosystems2010-2011

Topic / Lesson / Homework / Textbook Correlation
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  • Ecology and Sustainable Ecosystems
  • Earth’s spheres
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  • Prior Knowledge assessment
  • From organism to population through to biomes and biosphere, we are all connected.
  • How our earth has been sustainable for millions of years and what has happened in recent years to make it unsustainable.
  • Atmosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere, Gaia
  • Read some articles about ecology in the news
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  • Vocabulary Activities
  • Word search and pre test
  • Answer the ecology in the news questions.
  • Find a recent ecological event in the news and bring it to class.
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  • What do you know page 23
  • Life on planet earth page 29 and 30.
  • Check your learning page 31

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  • Ecosystems
  • Abiotic and biotic
  • Sustainability of ecosystems
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  • Ecology
  • Living and non-living organisms
  • Symbiosis, predation, competition
  • Ecosystem
  • Sustainable Ecosystems
  • Disappearing eel
  • Nonliving and living organisms
  • Producers, consumers, decomposers
  • Organism, species, population, community, habitat, niche
  • Natural selection, evolution, adaptation
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  • Forest Ecosystem Gizmo
  • Natural Selection Gizmo in class.
  • Disappearing frogs readings and activity
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  • Introducing ecosystems page 32 to 35
  • Check your learning page 35

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  • Energy Flow
  • Food Chains, Food Webs, and Food Pyramids
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  • Energy and organisms
  • Radiant energy
  • Food Chain
  • Food webs
  • More on producers, and consumers (herbivore, carnivore, omnivore) and decomposers
  • Feeding levels
  • Food Pyramids
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  • Food Chain Gizmo
  • Food web worksheets
  • Logic Problem
  • Owl Pellet Dissection
  • Pyramid OH worksheet
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  • Energy Flow in Ecosystems page 38 to 41
  • Check your learning page 41
  • Food webs and pyramids page 42 to 47
  • Check your learning page 47

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  • Flow of matter in ecosystems
  • Nutrient cycles
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  • Water cycle
  • Carbon cycle (photosynthesis and respiration)
  • Disrupting the carbon cycle
  • Nitrogen cycle
  • Altering the nitrogen balance
  • Phosphorus cycle
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  • Travelling Nitrogen activity
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  • Cycling of Matter page 48 to 51
  • Check your learning page 51

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  • Soil
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  • Components of soil
  • Litter, topsoil, subsoil, bedrock
  • Fertilizers
  • pH
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  • Soil investigation
  • Making soil!!
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  • Managing the soil page 123 to 128
  • Check your learning page 128

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  • Agriculture
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  • Modern Agriculture
  • Crop rotation
  • Pesticides, bioamplification, resistance, dependence
  • Forestry
  • Consumption, resource management, clearcutting
  • Resource management
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  • Crop Rotation activity
  • Pesticide readings
  • PCB’s
  • DDT
  • Debate about pros and cons of cutting forests
  • Forest management (106)
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  • Modern Agriculture page 119 to 122
  • Check your learning page 122
  • Pests and poisons page 132 to 134 and 135 to 140
  • Check your learning page 134 and 140
  • Consumption and resource management page 102 to 105
  • Check your learning page 105

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  • Pollution
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  • Pollution
  • Acid precipitation
  • Oil spills
  • Plastic bags and plastic water bottles
  • Carbon footprint
  • Urban ecosystem
  • Greener cities
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  • Plastic Videos
  • Calculating your carbon footprint
  • My green conscious
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  • Pollution page 96 to 101
  • Check your learning page 101
  • Reducing ecological footprint page 141
  • Waste management page 146

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  • Ecosystems
  • Biomes
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  • Terrestrial Ecosystems
  • Tundra, Boreal Forest, Deciduous forest, Grassland and Mountain
  • Aquatic Ecosystems
  • Rivers, lakes, wetlands, watersheds, oceans
  • Intertidal zone
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  • Map Canadian Biomes
  • Carbon warehouses
  • Biome Poster
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  • Terrestrial ecosystems page 56 to 59
  • Check your learning page 59
  • Aquatic ecosystems page 60 to 62
  • Check your learning page 62

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  • Equilibrium
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  • Equilibrium
  • Succession
  • Biodiversity
  • Bill Nye Biodiversity
  • Species at risk
  • Habitat loss
  • Non native species and invasion
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  • Endangered Species in Canada
  • Classification activity
  • Invaders Video
  • Mount St. Helen’s article
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  • Ecological succession page 80 to 82
  • Check your learning page 82
  • Importance of Biodiversity page 83 to 86
  • Check your learning page 86
  • Habitat loss page 87 to 90
  • Check your learning page 90
  • Non-native Species page 91 to 94
  • Check your learning page 94

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  • Populations
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  • Population and changes in size
  • Growth rate
  • Biotic Potential
  • Limiting Factors
  • Density dependent and independent
  • Direct and indirect competition
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  • Rabbit population by Season Gizmo
  • Population of bacteria graph
  • Unrestricted population growth graph
  • Human growth
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  • Influences on Biotic Features page 54
  • Carrying capacity page 55
  • Check your learning page 55

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  • Review and Test
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  • Ecology Terms matching sheet
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  • Review page 68 to 69
  • Quiz page 70 to 71
  • Review page 110 to 111
  • Quiz page 112 to 113
  • Review page 150 to 151
  • Quiz 152 to 153
  • Unit review page 158 to 163
  • Unit Quiz page 164 and 165