Metabolism of Urban Ecosystems
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A lesson plan for Grade 6 Science
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- Appropriate grades
- 6
- Subjects
- science (environmental science)
- Provider
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
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This Science NetLinks lesson is the fourth of a sequence of five lessons, teaching students that most of the materials and energy used by a city come from outside the city boundaries. Students will need to have at least a general working understanding of the concepts of flow (as in energy flow) and cycles (as in nutrient cycles) in order to get the most out of this lesson. The class will use various websites to investigate these processes and then create dramatic or musical skits demonstrating their understanding of the “actors” in the urban metabolism.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
Science (2005)
Grade 6
- Goal 4: The learner will investigate the cycling of matter.
- Objective 4.01: Describe the flow of energy and matter in natural systems:
- Energy flows through ecosystems in one direction, from the sun through producers to consumers to decomposers.
- Matter is transferred from one organism to another and between organisms and their environments.
- Water, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and oxygen are substances cycled between the living and non-living environments.
- Objective 4.01: Describe the flow of energy and matter in natural systems:
- Goal 7: The learner will conduct investigations and use technologies and information systems to build an understanding of population dynamics.
- Objective 7.04: Evaluate data related to human population growth, along with problems and solutions:
- Waste disposal.
- Food supplies.
- Resource availability.
- Transportation.
- Socio-economic patterns.
- Objective 7.04: Evaluate data related to human population growth, along with problems and solutions:
