TEKS:  5.1,  5.2, 5.5A,  5.9,  5.10

 Monday

School Holiday – Labor Day

Tuesday   

Weather observations continue.   Stress weather as an important NONLIVING part of ecosystems.   Google Classroom activity:  Nonliving Weather Changes and Ecosystem Interactions.   Discuss inherited traits that are structural –  (possible spinner activity).  Introduce / begin lab activity:  Comparative Investigations-Webbed Feet,  Structures,  & Functions.  Model (lab groups)  structures on organisms such as webbed feet (hand in baggie),  food pick – up, (sticks,  spoons,  balls,  kernels).   Large metal spoons for water ecosystems like ponds and lakes.  

Resources:  Lab sheet (MM  2017/2018 student ed. pgs 321-322),  lab equipment,  stations.

  Wednesday

Weather observations continue.  

Bean plant observations continue.  Continue lab experiment / observations – Comparative Investigations – Webbed Feet,  Structures,  & Functions.  Talk about  reasonable / unreasonable inherited structures on organisms that may /may not allow them to survive in an ecosystem.  (solid white bunny fur vs brownish;  feathers on a lion??)   Intro.  Grade #4: Unit 30: Characteristics.

Resources:  MM  17/18 Student ed. pgs  324 – 325,  lab activity.

Thursday

Weather observations continue

Bean plant life cycle activity continues.  Continue Grade #4:  Unit 30: Characteristics.  

Turn in Grade #5:  Ecosystem Observations / Vocabulary Sketchings.

Friday

September 11 events / timeline activities.  Photos,  videos,  live news coverage from the day.  Local East Texas reactions.