2ºESO: Ecosystems

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ECOSYSTEMS

1. ECOSYSTEM COMPONENTS.

Presentation.
Habitats (from Skoool KS3).
Studying habitats (from Skoool KS3).
Sampling technique (froms Skoool KS3).
Using a quadrat (from Skoool KS3).

2.ABIOTIC FACTORS. ADAPTATIONS.

Interpret some animations.
Investigación sobre los factores que influyen en la germinación.
Estudio de una bellota.
Adaptations and survival (from Skoool KS3).
Investigation from La Isla de las Ciencias: Marine biotope.

3.BIOTIC RELATIONS.

Social patterns: living in groups (from Skoool KS2).
Interdependence (from Skoool KS3).
Competition for resources (from Skoool KS3)
Video: Bees (2'34").
Video: El maravilloso mundo de las abejas de Disney (8 min.).
Video: Ants (6'38").

4.TROPHIC DYNAMICS.

Animal as consumers (from Skoool KS2).
Play, read and quiz: Food chains (Science clip from BBC KS2).
Food chains (from Skoool KS2).
Revise, activity and quiz: Food chains (Science clip froma BBC KS3).
Video: Rotting apple, the efect of decomposers (1'53").
Antartic food web game.

5.TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS.

6.AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS.

Actividades interactivas del Proyecto Biosfera.

Video clips from BBC about

We have watched many documentaries about foreign ecosystems but we don't need to go so far, we have marvellous places in our mediterranean forest as you realize watching these pictures from Sierra de Cádiz by Andrés Miguel Domínguez.

Author: Pablo Acosta Robles