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ES Grade 3: STP

Central Idea

Human behavior and natural events affect the balance of an ecosystem.

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Lines of Inquiry

The consequences of imbalance within an ecosystem (causation)
How the parts of an ecosystem are connected (function)
Ways ecosystems are impacted (responsibility)

eBooks and Audiobooks

SORA
WAB's Online eBook and Audiobook Catalogue
Overdrive
If you are having trouble accessing SORA, try Overdrive.

BrainPOP

Britannica

Slideshow

Ecosystems Explained
Outlines various ecosystems and how animals adapt to their environments.

Infographic

Water Cycle
The water cycle is how water moves from the land into the atmosphere, and then back to the land and ocean. It consists of three parts: evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.

NEWSELA

NEWSELA: Ecosystem Articles
Collection of news articles on ecosystems and biomes.

Clever Sign-In

SIGN-IN using your Microsoft WAB username and password.
List of Online Resources which can remember you login details.

EPIC Books

How to Read EPIC Books?
CLICK on books above then:
STUDENTS: Click any cover. Enter class code hbd2871 and choose GUEST
TEACHERS: Click START READING. Add to your Collection & assign to students.

Video clips

Extreme Weather: Drought
Look at the causes and effects of the droughts that have plagued the western United States for years. Understand the conditions that have led to increased numbers of forest fires year round and learn how the heat from these firestorms creates its own weather system, forming giant cloud structures called pyrocumulus.

Websites

Ecosystems
Everything in the natural world is connected. An ecosystem is a community of living and non-living things that work together.

Ecosystems Overview
An overview, in a Word document, of Ecosystems that is tied in to the website above.

Biomes
What are biomes?
Biomes are regions of the world with similar climate (weather, temperature) animals and plants. There are terrestrial biomes (land) and aquatic biomes, both freshwater and marine.