Populations Links
Populations Links
Lesson 1: Review (Brine Shrimp & Clover Investigation)
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/optics/olympusmicd/galleries/moviegallery/pondscum/annelida/aquaticearthworm/index.html Short movies showing aquatic earthworms.
Lesson 2: Planting Peas and Beans
Lesson 3: Organisms Around the School
Lesson 4: Daphnia
Lesson 5: Inventing the Population Concept
Lesson 6: Dispersal
Lesson 7: What Caused the Population Decrease
Lesson 8: Plant Dispersal
Lesson 9: Biotic Potential of Animals
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/genome/program.html Link to the PBS site that allows you to watch the NOVA program "Cracking the Code of Life". Best as a teacher resource, but could be used with students.
http://www.aolatschool.com/middleschool/subjects/science/movies/index.adp?movie=heredity_dec Watch the BrainPop movie about heredity. This will still require some teacher explanation due to the complexity of the movie.
Lesson 10: Biotic Potential of Plants
Lesson 11: Building Terrariums
Lesson 12: Cricket Populations in the Terrariums
Lesson 13: Adding an Animal-Eater
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/science/biology/population1_intro.shtml Learn about how populations are affected by one another and by pollution.
Lesson 14: Reviewing the Food Chain Concept
http://www.chesapeakebay.net/baybio.htm Examine different populations that live in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.
Lesson 15: "Inventing" the Food Web Concepts
http://www.chesapeakebay.net/baybio.htm Examine different populations that live in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/science/biology/population1_intro.shtml Learn about how populations are affected by one another and by pollution.
Lesson 16: Populations that Live with Humans
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/science/biology/population1_intro.shtml Learn about how populations are affected by one another and by pollution.
Lesson 17: Building Aquariums
Lesson 18: Damselflies and Daphnia
Lesson 19: Aquatic Food Relationships
Lesson 20: Powerful Predators
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