Lesson Plan: Ecosystems
This lesson plan includes the objectives, prerequisites, and exclusions of the lesson teaching students how to identify, describe, and compare ecosystems and describe interactions within them.
Objectives
Students will be able to
- define what an ecosystem is,
- identify and describe interactions within ecosystems,
- define what a community is,
- define abiotic and biotic factors and give examples of each,
- explain how biotic and abiotic factors can influence each other,
- define what a niche is,
- identify, describe, and compare the conditions of different ecosystems.
Prerequisites
Students should already be familiar with
- living and nonliving things,
- habitats.
Exclusions
Students will not cover
- biomes,
- predator and prey relationships,
- invasive species and changes within ecosystems.