Lesson Plan

"Algae: It Feeds, Kills and Dies"  Plant Activities: 4-6th Grade

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Periphyton algea
Grade Level:
Fourth Grade-Sixth Grade
Subject:
Biodiversity, Biology: Plants, Ecology
Duration:
60 mins
Group Size:
Up to 36
Setting:
indoors or outdoors
National/State Standards:
Next Generation FLORIDA SUNSHINE STATE STANDARDS
SC.4.L.17
SC.5.L.15
SC.6.L.14
NS.K-4.3
NS.K-4.6
NS.5-8.3
NS.5-8.3

Overview

Students will be able to: 1) arrange an aquatic
food chain in the Everglades, 2) explain how nutrients, in the
form of fertilizer, can affect this food chain, and 3) demonstrate
how contaminants, like mercury, can end up in our bodies.

Background

Our "Plant" unit is broken into six lesson plans, each taking from 20 minutes to several class periods to complete, and targeted mainly at 4th-6th grade students. A class needn't complete every lesson in the unit, though some lessons do refer to one another and are better done in sequence. However, each lesson comes with its own set of objectives and resources.

Additional Resources

https://www.nps.gov/ever/forteachers/4-6-activity-guide.htm

Vocabulary

Food chain, fertilizer, pyramid of numbers, mercury, periphyton, nutrients, biomagnification, contaminant

Last updated: April 14, 2015