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Baltimore County Public Schools: Biomes: Now and When (Online Research Model)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Biomes lesson designed to answer the question, how do abiotic and biotic factors interact within a biome? integrates biological concepts with literacy knowledge and skills. Includes directed questions, assessment guides, project...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Ecosystems

For Students 3rd - 5th
A video and a short multiple-choice quiz on the topic of ecosystems, covering biotic and abiotic factors, and the roles organisms play in an ecosystem.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Habitat Alterations of a Riparia

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This field trip is designed to physically immerse students in the concept of habitat alteration focusing on biotic and abiotic habitat alterations.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Glencoe Middle School Science: Biodiversity and Ecosystems

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will conduct a field investigation to learn about the environment. They will observe biotic and abiotic factors of an ecosystem. Students can use the CBL 2 and a temperature probe to collect data and a graphing calculator to...
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BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Adaptations, Interdependence and Competition Aqa

For Students 9th - 10th
The abundance and distribution of organisms in an ecosystem is determined by biotic and abiotic factors. Animals and plants have adaptations to allow them to compete for resources.
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SMART Technologies

Smart: Energy Flow in an Ecosystem

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students learn about Abiotic and Biotic Factors and how they affect the ecosystem in which an animal might live in.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: What Is Ecology?

For Students 9th - 10th
A webpage giving an overview of ecology. Learn about the biotic and abiotic factors that make up an ecosystem as well as the different levels of ecology.
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Other

Hub Pages: Biotic Factors of Ecosystem: Producers, Consumers and Decomposers

For Students 6th - 8th
An ecosystem is composed of biotic factors of a community of living organisms interacting with one another which we can see in food chains/webs. These diverse organisms stay together because of the need of food. Population is referred to...
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Oswego City School District

Regents Prep: Ecosystems/communities

For Students 9th - 10th
Abiotic factors vary in the environment and determining the types and numbers of organisms that exist in that environment. Factors which determine the types and numbers of organisms of a species in an ecosystem are called limiting...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: How Fast Can a Carrot Rot?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students conduct experiments to determine what environmental factors favor decomposition by soil microbes. They use chunks of carrots for the materials to be decomposed, and their experiments are carried out in plastic bags filled with...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Ecology Vocabulary

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This StudyCards stack enables students to review the vocabulary used in studying ecology.
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Climate Literacy

Clean: Global Patterns in Green Up and Green Down

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars analyze and explore visualizations and graphs that show the annual cycle of plant growth and decline. They investigate several regions in each hemisphere that have different land cover and will match graphs that show...
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Huntington Library

Huntington Library: Making Community Measurements: Biotic Factors [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
A lesson plan in which students explore plant communities and observe and classify different types of vegetation. Includes discussion questions, extension activities and web links, a vocabulary glossary, and handouts.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Ecosystem

For Students 9th - 10th
A PowerPoint giving a basic definition of an ecosystem. Also explained with a definition and examples are abiotic and biotic factors of the ecosystem.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Canyonlands: Tonight Our Guest Is

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This lesson will help students understand that animals adapt to abiotic and biotic conditions in their environment, some of which have evolved over a long period of time through the process of natural selection, and identify the...
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BiologyWise

Biology Wise: Pollination of Flowers

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses what pollination is, the types, what happens during pollination, its importance in agriculture and horticulture, and the biotic and abiotic factors that facilitate pollination. Has some embedded ads.
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University of Michigan

University of Michigan: The Concept of the Ecosystem

For Students 9th - 10th
Lesson looks at the definition of an ecosystem, biogeochemical cycles, and factors responsible for the differences between ecosystems.
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BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Adaptations Adaptations, Interdependence and Competition

For Students 9th - 10th
Organisms depend on each other for survival. This is called interdependence. Both living and non-living factors will affect the abundance and distribution of organisms in a habitat. Included is a link to a test.
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SMART Technologies

Smart: Living and Nonliving Things

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students define the characteristics of living and non-living things, identify living and non-living components of an ecosystem, and identify the roles of organisms in living systems.
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NOAA

Noaa: Estuaries 101 Curriculum: Survival in an Estuary

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity introduces students to the nature of estuaries, estuarine environmental factors, and four important abiotic factors-pH, temperature, dissolved oxygen, and salinity-and how they vary in estuaries. A PowerPoint presentation,...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: River Rewilding: Advanced Water Quality

For Students 9th - 10th
In this unit, students will try to improve stream quality and reduce human impacts by taking action.This Advanced Water Quality unit is packaged into three smaller parts: Part 1: Stream Habitat Assessment; Part 2: Macroinvertebrate...
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National Geographic

National Geographic: Marine Ecosystems and Biodiversity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A collection of three lessons where students learn about abiotic factors in marine ecosystems, about marine food chains and biodiversity, and about marine food webs and trophic levels. Includes handouts, website links, and a vocabulary...
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CPALMS

Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Do or Die: Extinction in a Changing World

For Students 9th - 10th
A Resource to help understand that concept of natural selection and to realize that organisms need to adapt to survive.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Ecosystems

For Students 6th - 8th
Gives basic information about the community that forms between living and non-living factors that function together in an ecosystem. [47 secs]

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