Overview: Life in a Wetland
In this unit, students learn all about wetlands and ecosystems through classroom instruction, multimedia presentations, discussions, fi eld trips, lab experiments, and extensive print and Internet searches. Acting as naturalists, students discover complex living ecosystems consisting of producers, consumers, and decomposers that play interdependent roles in a unique food chain cycle that allows wetland residents to survive and reproduce. This knowledge is reinforced through diagramming exercises and games designed to jog students’ memories.
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National Standards:
Hawaii State Standards:
- Hawaii Content and Performance Standards III
- 5th Grade
- SC.5.1.2 Formulate and defend conclusions based on evidence
- SC.5.2.1 Use models and/or simulations to represent and investigate features of objects, events, and processes in the real world
- SC.5.3.1 Describe the cycle of energy among producers, consumers, and decomposers
- SC.5.3.2 Describe the interdependent relationships among producers, consumers, and decomposers in an ecosystem in terms of the cycles of matter
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7mb
Keywords:
animals, coastal marshes, ecosystems, endemic, filter, habitats, predator, species, survival, water saturated, wetland
