Biological Relationships: Memory and Chain Game Lesson

National Standards:

• 5-8 th grade:
  • Populations and ecosystems . A population consists of all individuals of a species that occur together at a given place and time. All populations living together and the physical factors with which they interact compose an ecosystem.
  • Populations and ecosystems . For ecosystems, the major source of energy is sunlight. Energy entering ecosystems as sunlight is transferred by producers into chemical energy through photosynthesis. That energy then passes from arganism to organism in food webs.

Arizona Standards:

• 6 th grade:
  • Strand 1: Concept 3: PO 2. Form a logical argument about a correlation between variables or sequence of events (e.g., construct a cause-and-effect chain that explains a sequence of events).
  • Strand 1: Concept 3: PO 6. Formulate new questions based on the results of a completed investigation.
  • Strand 2: Concept 2: PO 3. Apply the following scientific processes to other problem solving or decision making situations: predicting, inferring, identifying, variables, questioning, communicating, classifying.
  • Strand 4: Concept 3: PO 1. Explain that sunlight is the major source of energy for most ecosystems.
• 7 th grade:
  • Strand 3: Concept 1: PO 1. Analyze environmental risks (e.g., pollution, destruction of habitat) caused by human interaction with biological or geological systems.
  • Strand4: Concept 3: PO1. PO 1. Compare food chains in a specified ecosystem and their corresponding food web