First, take a blank piece of paper and fold it into fourths like this. Folded up, you see the front and back. Opening just one fold are pages 2 and 3.
Page 1
- The title of this book will be Ecology, then you need to put the definition into terms a 2nd grader could understand. I will do this one for you.
The definition from your notes says that ecology is "the study of interactions between organisms and their environment".
I would rewrite this to say, "the study of how living things work with the places where they live".
Now draw a picture that demonstrates a living thing interacting with its environment. For example a fish swimming in a pond would illustrate this.
Page 2
- Write the word Population, a kid friendly definition, and draw a picture to show a population on the top half of the page.
7th Grade Definition of Population - all the organisms of one species living in the same place at the same time
-Write the word Community, a kid friendly definition, and draw a picture to show a community on the bottom half of the page.
7th Grade Definition of Community - all of the organisms of all species living in the same place at the same time.
Page 3
- Write the word Ecosystem, a kid friendly definition, and draw a picture to show an ecosystem on the top half of the page.
7th Grade Definition of Community - all the biotic and abiotic factors together in the same place at the same time.
-Write the words Food Chain, a kid friendly definition, and draw a food chain with labeled pictures for each link.
7th Grade Definition of Food Chain - a series of organisms linked by a flow of energy as one organism eats another, always starting with a producer
Page 4
- Write the word Food Web, a kid friendly definition, and draw a food web that fills the rest of the page. Please draw pictures of the organisms in the web and label them.
7th Grade Definition of Food Web - a series of overlapping food chains that show the complex feeding relationships in an ecosystem
