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10 Ecosystem Project Ideas. Create Your Own Ecosystems or Habitats. Have your students work in groups, research, and then create an ecosystem together. It can be something as simple as collecting pond water, organisms, and plants. You could also have students create individual habitats instead of an entire ecosystem.
- Nonfiction Text For Teaching Ecosystems
- Study Jams
- Ecosystems Project – Accordion Books
- Teaching Ecosystems with Food Chains
- Food Web
- Food Chain Collage
- Ecosystems Project – Changes to Ecosystems Jigsaw
- Teaching Ecosystems with Science Stations
- Ecosystems Project – Biome Posters
- Build An Ecosystem
Research is an important part of any ecosystem project and lets you incorporate informational reading and science. The books below are a few of my favorites for this ecosystem project. We use the books with interactive anchor charts like the one shown below where students write examples of producers, consumers, decomposers, herbivores, and carnivor...
Study Jams is such a great online resource! I show videos for my mini lesson all of the time, and they’re perfect for my standards! They are also short enough and interesting enough to keep my students’ attention. There are little quizzes students can take or individually as a class, and best of all-it’s free! This engaging content is great for any...
Once my students have a good general understanding of ecosystems, they create simple ecosystem books. While this isn’t a major ecosytems project, students enjoy this activity. Students fold a half sheet of construction paper into fourths. I like to cut large 12×18 construction paper in half, so students have a 6×18 sheet of paper. Then, students la...
A crafty part of the ecosystem project is when students create their own food chain. I provide students with a copy of the sun and five circles. Students draw a picture of a producer, something that gets their energy from the producer, and so on until all five circles include some plant or animal on the food chain. I like to start with food chains ...
I would LOVE to share some pictures of this ecosystems project, but I don’t like to post pictures with students, so I’ll just have to promise that this is an awesome activity for teaching ecosystems! Give each student a card like the cards below and have everyone stand in a large circle. The student who has the card should stand in the middle of th...
I use crafts very sparingly, but I absolutely could not resist these food chain collages when I was teaching ecosystems. It was so tempting to premake some templates for my students to use so everything could be nice and neat, but I wanted to give ownership to my students and to allow them to select any series of animals in a food chain. This is al...
I haven’t had a lot of success with jigsaw activities in the past, so I was a bit hesitant to try it again, but I couldn’t keep ignoring the research. In this jigsaw, activity was related to changes to ecosystems. Each group had five members, and then I split the five groups up into expert groups. My expert groups were: wildfire, logging, drought, ...
I love The Science Penguin’s Ecosystem Stations. I keep each station activity in a file folder. If the station requires cards, I keep the cards in sandwich bags in the folder. I love this resource, and I typically give students about three days to finish the booklet recording sheet.
Biomes are not technically in my science standards, but they lend themselves perfect to a ecosystem project or unit. An added benefit is that science is the one subject I don’t feel rushed to teach, so I have time for projects like this. I assign each student a biome: taiga, tundra, deciduous forest, tropical rainforest, desert, and grassland. Befo...
Naturally any lesson that includes LIVE FISH is sure to be a hit with students! To finish the unit, students got to build their own ecosystems. I didn’t try to have every student build an ecosystem. Although, that would be awesome. Since it was my first year teaching this lesson, I wanted to start small. I thought visual directions might be easier ...
Jan 16, 2023 · Teaching certain subsections of science is sometimes more engaging than others, and with our help- you should be able to effectively engage learners in a fun ecosystem lesson. Read on for 15 activities to captivate learners while learning about ecosystems and biomes.
- Ashley Charles
- Brandon Wiggins
- The Great Green Wall. The Great Green Wall is an African-led project that aims to create the largest living structure on the planet, a new natural wonder that will span the width of the Sahel region, which has become increasingly dry and barren.
- Pakistan’s Tree Tsunami. Launched in 2014, Pakistan’s “Billion Tree Tsunami” saw the government of the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa successfully plant a billion trees by 2017, months ahead of schedule, according to the World Economic Forum.
- Peruvian Amazon. The Peruvian Amazon has been devastated by land degradation and deforestation over the past century. Land in the Ucayali region of Peru had been largely abandoned in the 1990s, according to Initiative 20x20, until 2008, when the Peruvian company Bosques Amazonicos SAC began training farmers in the area on how to sustainably grow food.
- Belize Barrier Reef System. Consisting of seven marine protected areas, the Belize Barrier Reef System was once described by Charles Darwin as “the most remarkable reef in the West Indies,” according to UNESCO, and it “is unique in the world for its array of reef types contained in a relatively small area.”
- Urban Garden Ecosystem Design. Create a sustainable urban garden ecosystem that integrates native plants, beneficial insects, and environmentally friendly practices.
- Aquaponics System Construction. Develop a closed-loop aquaponics system that combines aquaculture (fish farming) with hydroponics (soilless plant cultivation).
- Native Wildlife Habitat Restoration. Identify a local area suffering from habitat degradation and work on restoring it to support native wildlife. This project involves researching the ecosystem’s original state, assessing current threats, and implementing conservation measures such as planting native vegetation, creating nesting sites, or installing bird feeders.
- Beekeeping and Pollinator Garden. Set up a small-scale beekeeping operation alongside a pollinator-friendly garden. Explore the critical role bees play in pollination and the ecosystem services they provide.
unit 7 – ecosystem model project OBJECTIVE: In this lesson, we are learning about the various biotic and abiotic factors that make up an ecosystem, as well as how these factors work together to maintain a balanced ecosystem.
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Truth Be Told Season 1 Episode 7: The Ecosystem Summary: Mitch And Angie search for common ground on an unexpected lunch date; Russel and Tracy sharing office space.
