Wednesday 8/26 Agenda

MATH 
Learning Goals: Use the associative, commutative, and distributive properties. Multiply using an area model.


Warm-Up: Homework Review

Workbook Quiz


Homework: Workbook p. 9


SCIENCE 
Learning Goals: Explain how energy is transferred in an ecosystem and how the amount of available energy changes at each level of an energy pyramid.

Energy Transfer Role Play activity discussion

• What happened to most of the energy that reached the plant?
• In what form did the plants store energy?
• About what percentage of the energy taken in by a consumer was available to the next level of consumer?
• What happened to the energy that was not passed to the next trophic level?

Sierra Nevada Energy Pyramid

What are some other examples of producers?

What are other examples of primary consumers? Secondary consumers? Tertiary consumers?

What role in the pyramid do we (humans) play?

Exit Task/Homework: Go to your Student Workbook and complete the Energy Pyramids worksheet in Lesson 3.