Biological drawing, playing the game, impact of humans.
Journal Prompts:
What is three things you learned about your organism by drawing it?
How does your event card impact the wetland ecosystem? What can be done to minimize damage from your event?
Why is it important to protect wetlands?
Science Outcomes:
Students will categorize their chosen organism Phylomon cards as producers, consumers or decomposers to design a food web. Students will record their findings in their Interdependence Journal for teacher review. Students will also peer-review each other's food webs through a gallery walk. Students will provide feedback to each other's food web, noting the differences and similarities between the food webs.
Students will be able to predict what will happen to their ecosystem when one organisms is removed. The teacher will remove an aspect of their food web, and prompt students to discuss and summarize what will happen to the ecosystem when this organism is removed.
Social Studies Outcomes:
Students will evaluate the importance of wetlands to interdependent relationships and the sustainability of Canada's natural environment
Students will appreciate the importance of protecting and maintaining the interdependent relationships in wetlands
Students will understand the importance of caring for our environment by examining events that affect wetlands
ELA Outcomes:
Students will work with news articles to gather information about human impact on Wetlands.
Using what they learn from news articles, students will make inferences about other possible environmental events and their consequences. They will apply this knowledge to an "event card" for their Phylomon deck.
Fine Arts Outcomes:
Students will analyze natural forms to see how the whole is composed of its parts.
Students will use different drawing techniques; e.g., seeing basic shapes, noticing the direction of forms, plotting the position of extremities, to draw realistically.
Students will use drawing tools to make a variety of shapes and structures extending beyond previous levels to exploring and enclosing forms, active and passive forms, concave, convex forms, concentric and branching structures.
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