Environmental Science Objectives

ABACUS 01-SCES-40

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Objectives:

8. Students will investigate the influence of climate on the distribution and abundance of plant and animal populations in large ecosystems, i.e. biomes.

Time Range:
2nd Quarter

Suggested Teaching Strategies:
Identify seven major land biomes and the two water biomes: tundra, taiga, desert, rainforest, three types of grasslands, temperate deciduous forest and fresh and marine biomes. Study the flora and fauns of each biome and related terms. Relate environmental problems facing the different biomes.

Aligned Resources:

• Core Lab 8: Climatogram Lab - relates temperature and precipitation patterns for major biomes
• Core Lab 9: Oklahoma Grassland Biome - analyzes effect of elevation and rainfall patterns to vegetation and types of biomes found across Oklahoma
• Share the Biome Project - cooperative project between Bartlesville High School and a high school in some other region of the country.
• Biome Wheel Activity or Mobile
• Biome Series of videos to introduce each major biome
• Fashion a Fish - Students design a fish that will survive under particular environmental criteria
• "Medicine Man" video about destruction of the rainforest and species extinction
  (this video personally owned by Mary Watson)

Revision Date:
June 2005