What's in Your Ecosystem?

Contributed by: Emily Morgan

Target Age Group/Grade: 3rd-5th Grade

Estimated Time: 60 min

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Summary: Understand what lives and resides right outside your door. Explore what makes up an ecosystem and ponder how we humans connect to the systems around us.

Learning Goals:

• Students will able to explain what an ecosystem is

• Students will explore what lives around them and how living things connect to non-living things

• Students will wonder about their place in the ecosystem and how they are connected to the living things right outside their door

Materials Needed:

• Paper + clipboard/journal

• pencil/pen

• Paper (bigger the better, butcher paper recommended)

• Markers/crayons/colored pencils (optional)