Virginia Standards Of Learning For Ecosystems Summary

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Text Set for the Ecosystems & Habitats

Summary

This text set is designed around environments and habitats. The set is designed to be used in cross curricular unit for Science and Language Artis, including fiction and nonfiction texts. The target grade is third. Following the text set there, there are several independent novels that are centered around ecosystems and habitats. The unit addresses Virginia standards of Learning for ecosystems and habitat. Additionally, the lessons will cover English Language Arts and Writing SOLs.

Virginia Standards of Learning
Third Grade Science
3.6 The student will investigate and understand that environments support a diversity of plants and animals that share limited resources. Key concepts include

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(1995). Afternoon on the Amazon. New York: Random House.

In this fantasy novel readers will magically travel with the main characters, Jack and Annie, through the Amazon Rain Forest. While traveling, readers will encounter crocodiles, jaguars, rain forest plants and many other living things that make up the rain forest ecosystem. It features multiple communities and populations of rain forest animals. This 3rd grade novel engages readers through this adventurous tale and enriches their knowledge of the Amazon ecosystem.

Living Things Depend on One Another (B)

This leveled reader is designed to build student vocabulary and comprehension of ecosystems and animal survival. The book addresses aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. At the beginning of the text a vocabulary page outlines the essential words for understanding. Bold faced words highlight the key vocabulary. This text contains many opportunities for students to ask question and respond to their reading. Illustrations cover the page to support the text. This book contains a glossary and index to support vocabulary …show more content…

(2012). Ecology the study of ecosystems. New York: Children's Press.

This nonfiction book, Ecology, is written on a late 4th grade reading level. This book explores the many living things that make up the complex environment world we live in. The text discusses how ecologist study living things, the climate, the Earth, and how they work tother. It contains several pictures with captions to explain how living things interact in the environment.

Batten, M., & Doyle, B. (2008). Aliens from Earth: When animals and plants invade other ecosystems. Atlanta: Peachtree.

Aliens from Earth is an informational nonfiction text written on a 6th grade level. It offers readers an opportunity to compare predator and prey relationships to explore what would happen if populations of animals were go extinct. It explores the complex environment and introduces readers to serious environmental problems affecting the fragile ecosystem. Full color illustrations cover the pages. Readers compares the term “alien” to invading species in an ecosystem. Suggestions are provided for helping stop invading species, which allows readers to think beyond the text to solve this complex problem. 

Gibbons, G. (1996). Deserts. New York: Holiday