Lesson 8
Cycles
Learning Intention: Explore how the biogeochemical and energy cycles result the interrelationships between organisms.
Success Criteria
8. I can use the cycles to explain the interrelationship between pathogens and the human body.
Learning Tasks
Read the two Khan Academy articles and then answer the questions in the Google Doc.
Copy down the notes Ms Garlick makes on the different biogeochemical and energy cycles.
Ms Garlick will run you through a water cycle activity.
Complete the strip of electron arrangement that Ms Garlick has provided you. Then compare with your classmates to figure out the trends in the periodic table.
Listen to the notes on trends and why carbon is such an important atom.
Homework
Finish Reading Comprehension Questions
This lesson occurred on Thursday and Friday, May 2nd and 3rd, 2024, Term 2 Week 1. The latter date is when this webpage was last updated.
Teacher Notes
I'm using this lesson as a whole class, so resources slightly change depending on the context of what the student is doing for the assessment. But regardless of what they are doing, they need to have a concept of cycles and relationships, cause and effect.
The water cycle activity - split the classroom into four zones based on the spheres of Earth (land, animals, ocean, atmosphere). Give different description activities to get people to move while having an image of the water cycle on the board. Then talk about how we make and simply images can result in misconspections. I have a folder for some good ones that I use with the first one being the one that the design causes misconceptions.) Just a good way to for them to think about how information is communicated.
For task #5, print the periodic table trends on A3 and then slice row-way and column-way. Some students will have rows, some will have periods. They have to look at each other's work to see the patterns. Here are the answers for teachers when use when giving notes.