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Ecosystems: Common Core Lessons & Activities Carole Marsh

The Ecosystems Common Core Lessons and Activities Book allows you to immediately meet new Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts, as well as Literacy and Writing in History/Social Studies. It is designed to supplement your Social Studies resources, adding new Common Core rigor, analysis, writing, inference, text-dependent, and more into your daily instruction.

How to Use the Ecosystems - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
Work through the lessons and activities as a class to teach your students higher-order thinking, analysis, and 21st century skills necessary to meet new Common Core expectations.
Allow students to work through the lessons independently to build and practice these new skills.
Include technology, collaboration, presentations, and discussion in the activities as you desire - you can decide how in-depth to go.
Watch your class develop new abilities to meet the rigor of Common Core State Standards, right before your eyes!

Tips:
Use some of the pages - or use them all - based on your grade, your students, your curriculum, and your needs.
Use these pages at their current size, or if you prefer them to be 8.5 X 11 , enlarge them 125% on your copy machine.
Use the correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson.

Here is the Table of Contents for the Ecosystems - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
What is an Ecosystem?: Reading Informational Text
Producers: Concepts & Processes
Consumers: Applying Concepts G
Decomposers: Reading Informational Text
Nonliving Parts of Ecosystems: Reading Informational Text
Parts of an Ecosystem: Main Idea Organizer G
Flow of Energy: Graphic Organizer G
A Food Web: Applying Concepts G
Analysis of an Ecosystem: Graphic Organizer G
Aquatic Ecosystems: Reading Informational Text
Home on the Prairie: Inference
Forest Ecosystems: Comparison of Primary Sources G
Life in the Desert: Reading Informational Text
Human Environments: Primary Source Analysis
Threats to an Ecosystem: Problem-Solution-Results GO9
Ecosystem at Risk: Primary Source Analysis
Change over Time: Succession: Reading Informational Text
Ecosystems Vocabulary: Vocabulary GO10
Common Core Correlations

G: Includes Graphic Organizer
GO: Graphic Organizer is also available 8.5 x 11 online.

(numbers above correspond to the graphic organizer numbers online)