6th+Sci+Interdependence


 * Subject/Course:** Science

**Grade Level:** 6

**Standard: Interdependence**

**SPI or Check for Understanding (#): 0607.2.1** Classify organisms as producers, consumers, scavengers, or decomposers according to their role in a food chain or food web

**Assessment Topic:** Classify organisms as to their role in the food web

**Essential Question (s):** What is a producer? What is a consumer? What is a scavenger? What is a decomposer? Why are there more producers in the world? What might happen if all the decomposers became extinct? Give an example of each in a forest ecosystem. Draw a forest food web in the world?

**Subject/Course:** Science

**Grade Level:** 6

**Standard: Interdependence**

**SPI or Check for Understanding (#): 0607.2.2** Interpret how materials and energy are transferred through an ecosystem

**Assessment Topic:** How is energy transferred through an ecosystem?

**Essential Question (s):** What do arrows represent in a food chain? What is the source of most energy that exists? Where do consumers get their energy? How do producers get their energy?

**Subject/Course:** Science

**Grade Level:** 6

**Standard: Interdependence**

**SPI or Check for Understanding (#): 0607.2.3** Identify the biotic and abiotic elements of the major biomes

**Assessment Topic:** What are examples of abiotic and biotic elements in every major biome?

**Essential Question (s):** What are biotic elements? What are abiotic elements? Why are abiotic elements important to biotic? How have biotic elements adapted to different biomes? What biotic elements and abiotic elements are present in a deciduous forest biome?

**Subject/Course:** Science

**Grade Level:** 6

**Standard: Interdependence**

**SPI or Check for Understanding (#): 0607.2.4** Identify the environmental conditions and interdependencies among organisms found in the major biomes

**Assessment Topic:** What are the interdependencies among living organisms found in the major biomes?

**Essential Question (s):** How have animals adapted to life in a desert, ocean, tundra, rainforest, swamp, and forest? What abiotic factors affect the organism’s ability to survive? What might happen if there is a major warming of the earth’s temp?