Teacher Recommended Resources - Ecosystems

These extensions are brought to you by other teachers who have used this unit. They have not been evaluated by The Einstein Project. REV. 4/24/08

Write to local people, companies, etc. regarding pollutants in our environment

Using the school grounds as a good source to see how the "ecosystem" has changed, ask parents to add information as to how the school grounds have changed over time.

Speaker: education person from Green Bay Metropolitan Sewage District

Book: Prince William by Gloria Rand –paperback- ISBN# 080503384x – based on a true event of an Alaskan oil spill

Inspiration software to Web Relationship – dependence, independence, interdependence

Videos: "Artic & Antarctica", and "Deserts" by DK – students took notes on these extreme ecosystems and we compared/contrasted to our eco-columns.
Also showed the DK Eyewitness video "Pond & River"
 - The Mystery of the Dead Fish – MBG Videos

Take the students on a watershed walk through the neighborhood, searching for surface runoff pollution and its routing to storm sewers and nearby streams. Litter along stream beads can often be traced to storm sewer run-off.

For Lesson 14, examine problems of the local ecosystem and see if you have similar issues.

Websites:

http://www.fi.edu/msp/eco/index.html - good resource site

http://www.bottlebiology.org/investigations/terraqua_main.html - Bottle Biology is an instructional materials development program, and was funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation administered by the University of Wisconsin-Madison.