Sunday, April 19, 2009

4/20 & 4/21 Food Webs & Photosynthesis

Opening: Carbon
Worktime: Producers & Consumers
Closing: Food Webs
HW: Tell a story about how one atom of carbon moves through a food web.  You must use these words in your story: carbon dioxide, photosynthesis, respiration, producer, consumer, herbivore, and predator.  Quiz 7.3.1 on Friday, 4/24.

The story you write for homework will be revised on Wednesday or Thursday and you will hand in a final draft on Friday.  This story will be the project assignment for this benchmark, and it will be graded on this rubric.

Benchmark 7.3.1

Objective: To explain the roles of photosynthesis and respiration in a food web.

You can visit this site here to read about the carbon cycle.  You can watch the presentation below to see what we learned in class.