Introduction
Thompson- 6th Grade Math. Add, subtract multiply, and divide decimals fluently. Fluently compute fraction operations with unlike denominators and mixed numbers. Algebraic expressions. Ratios and unit rates. Positive and negative integers, absolute value. Geometry: area of triangles, rectangular prisms, surface area. Customary and metric. This Exploring Biomes Lesson 2: Biome Research Lesson Plan is suitable for 6th - 10th Grade. Learners view a PowerPoint presentation on biomes and their classifications. Divide them into groups and assign them each an individual biome to research. Your position about using dogs for research. Include convincing evidence that backs up your position. Biomes: This Biomes Accordion Booklet is a fun hands on activity for students to use in their interactive notebooks. Students may research different facts about each biome and write what they find on the provided blank lines. A biome booklet with answers is also included. This Biome Booklet conta.
A travel agency is trying to boost travel to different parts of the world by redesigning their brochures and other material to advertise to their clients. You have been hired to make a presentation to sell a travel package. You will develop some type of presentation to the class to sell your vacation package.
Vacation Packages include destinations, such as:
The Taiga (also known as coniferous forest)
The Cold Tundra
The Tropical Rain Forest
The Dehydrated Desert
Little Trip to the Prairie (also known as temperate grassland)
Sunny Savannah
Temperate Deciduous Forest
Freshwater
Ocean-Side
Process
Each student will be assigned a biome by the teacher. It is the student's job to research the biome and gather facts and information about that biome. You will all be experts in your biome on various levels. You will have to be an expert about your ecosystem on various levels. You will need to study the animals, plants, weather and geography of your biome; making you a...
Zoologist (animal expert)
Botonist (plant expert)
Meteorologist (weather expert)
Geographer (map expert)
Each travel agent should choose a website from the resource list, find their biome and record facts and information about the biome on the sheets provided. All fact sheets/research will be turned in. If you research at home, please do not print out whole webpages, facts about your biome will be recorded on your fact sheets. Extra fact sheets can be downloaded at the bottom of this page. Remember to write down anything useful you think could be a part of your vacation package project.
Some Questions to Consider While Your Research:
What kinds of activities could people do in this location?
Biome Research Projectmr. Mac's 6th Grade Language Arts
What kinds of plants and animals live there? Who are the predators? The herbivores? Producers? Etc.
What's the weather like?
What is the best time of year to to travel there?
What part of the world will they be travelling to?
Are there any dangers or something to be alert with regard to traveling there?
Biome Research Projectmr. Mac's 6th Grade Reference Sheet
Biome Research Projectmr. Mac's 6th Graders
Biome Research Projectmr. Mac's 6th Grade Edition
'My Book about Biomes' Project |
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| Free Printable Project with Grading Rubric - Scroll Down to Print (PDF) - Science > Earth Science |
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This is a fun DIY booklet project on biomes for Earth Scence students in grades 5-8. It's 100% free to print, and includes a printable grading rubric (scroll down). This blank workbook is fifteen pages in length (the back page is empty). Click here to print the workbook. Students begin by defining what a biome is, as well as defining terrestrial biomes and aquatic biomes. Students then divide a list of eleven biomes into a chart with columns for terrestrial or aquatic. Then, as seen in the illustration to the left, the real work begins. For each of the eleven biomes, students must describe the climate, list three animals and three plants that live in this type of biome, draw an illustration of the biome, and locate and label on a world map two locations where this kind of biome is found. Biomes covered: coral reef, deciduous forest, desert, grassland, large lake, oceanic island, river delta, taiga (coniferous forest), temperate, tropical rainforest, and tundra. Finally, a short essay question is posed: 'How can changes in environmental conditions affect the survival of a species?' Last of all, students are told: 'Research an animal or a plant that is currently endangered, or that already became extinct, due to changing environmental conditions. Tell the animal or plant’s story here.' The possibilities for this are endless, from prehistoric dinosaurs and megalodons, to current endangered species such as the panda. Click here for the World Wildlife Fund's list of endangered species. |
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How to grade this and be fair? A good old grading rubric! We recommend giving each student a copy of the rubric before work begins so that students (and parents) will know exactly what is expected of them, and that each item counts. Experience also tells us that students should be offered a few extra credit points for neat work, as well as told that such-and-such number of points will be deducted for sloppy or late work. Rubrics can be cumbersome for a booklet project like this. We broke it down point by point. There are 165 points possible. Points earned divided by points possible equals the percentage grade. Each page and item is covered in chronological order. The teacher simply jots down on this sheet as the booklet is graded. There is space at the bottom of the first side to tally up that side's points. On the second side, there's space to jot down the tally from the first side, before figuring the grand total. Easy as pie! Rubrics truly are the only effective talisman to ward off projects, covered in glitter and plastic covers, that are devoid of content. Click here to print this rubric. If you'd like to modify the rubric (for example, to add point values for cited sources), here's the grading rubric template as a Word document: Biomes Booklet Grading Rubric Template. |
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