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Introduction
Task
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Biomes
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Conclusion
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Teachers Page
“We will conserve only that which we love.
We will love only that which we understand.
We will understand only that which we are taught.
Baba Dioum
An Eco-Quest By Ms. Ogden
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Deciduous Forest Forests Biomes Deciduous Earth Floor Blue Planet World Biomes
Forest
If you liked learning about this biome, you might enjoy reading My Side of the Mountain or Frightful’s Mountain by Jean Craighead George for more fun.
Tundra
Tundra's Tundra Earth Floor Blue Planet World Biomes
If you liked learning about this biome, you might like reading Julie of the Wolves, Julie, or Julie’s Wolf Pack by Jean Craighead George for more fun.
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Introduction
By the time you read this 149 acres of the rainforest will be destroyed. Grasslands will be burned forcing their inhabitants onto the endangered list. By the end of this hour 6 species will have become extinct, gone forever!
UNLESS
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not!” The Lorax, by Dr. Seuss
Teacher Page This Webquest was created for a sixth grade study of world biomes with a focus on the interdependent, interactive relationships between the biotic and abiotic elements that comprise a biome.
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If you plan for a year, Plant rice.
If you plan for ten years, Plant a tree.
If you plan for a hundred years, Educate children.
Chinese Proverb
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TASK You will be joining a research team in a virtual expedition around the world. You will explore each biome to discover how the abiotic factors influence the life forms that live there and the inter-relationships that create the delicate balance found in an ecosystem.
You will also study the adaptations that enable organisms to be successful in their respective biomes.
As you travel through each biome you will keep a journal of your discoveries so that upon your return you can teach others to understand nature and love it as you do.
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PROCESS
Evaluation Each research team will have a zoologist, a botanist and a research manager. Conservation missions are always short of money so you must switch roles on each trip.
The field research manager is responsible for determining the abiotic elements that define the region, They must also determine the impact that humans have had on the area.
The botanist will identify at least two kinds of plants and discuss what characteristics help in it’s success. They will determine how their plants interact in that specific biome.
The zoologist will describe at least two animals that live in that biome. They must determine what adaptations help this animal to be successful and how these animals interact in their biome.
As you complete your travel through each biome you must compile your journal entries into a research paper explaining the interactions of that biome. Use what you have learned in class to develop that understanding and to support your explanation. Your paper must be detailed enough to allow the reader to develop an understanding of the complex inter-relationships that compose an ecosystem so that they also may be able to develop the understanding needed for them to love nature and join you in your mission to conserve.
Ready to travel?
Click on the globe.
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CONCLUSION "Man did not weave the web of life - he is merely a strand in it.
Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself." Chief Seattle, 1854.
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Pick a biome and click on it.
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Desert Biomes Desert Earth Floor Blue Planet World Biome
If you liked learning about this biome you might enjoy reading One Day in the Desert by Jean Craighead George.
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Tropical Grasslands
World Biomes Blue Planet Grasslands Biomes Earth Floor Savanna
If you liked learning about this biome you might enjoy reading The Missing Gator of Gumbo Limbo or Tree Castle Island by Jean Craighead George.
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Taiga
Biomes Taiga Earth Floor World Biomes Blue Planet
If you liked learning about this biome you might enjoy reading The Fire Bug Connection by Jean Craighead George or Hatchet by Gary Paulsen.
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Temperate Grasslands
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Biomes World Biomes Grasslands Blue Planet
If you liked learning about this biome you might enjoy reading One Day on the Prairie by Jean Craighead George.
Graphics http://www.smokiesstore.org/prodimg/650180.jpg
http://www.uncw.edu/smec/gk_fellows/images/ask/zoologist.jpg
http://www.bartramsgarden.org/images/history/botanist_pyle.gif
http://www.animationfactory.com/brain/search.cgi?a=s&area=all&term =botanist Pictures by Ms. Ogden and Mr. Tucker Hyperlinks http://mbgnet.mobot.org/ http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/world_biomes.htm
http://www.worldbiomes.com/ http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/gloss5/biome/
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Classroom Resources Macmillan Encyclopedia of Science, Ref. 503 MAC The New Book of Popular Science, Ref. 500 CAS Encyclopedia of Science, UXL volumes 1-9 Science Fact Finder, UXL 3 volumes Encyclopedia of Biomes, UXL volumes 1-3 The Facts on File, Dictionary of Ecology, Jill Bailey FAC 557 The Encyclopedia of Animals, Grolier Life in a Deciduous Forest, MAC 577.3
Biomes and Habitats, Philip Whitfield WHI 577.8
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Resources Ocean, April Pulley Sayre SAY 551.46
Lake and Pond, SAY 577.63
Coral Reef, SAY 574.9
River and Stream, SAY 577.6
Grassland, SAY 574.5
Seashore, SAY 577.63
Wetland, SAY 577.68
Taiga, SAY 574.5
Desert, SAY 572.54
Tundra, SAY 574.5
Temperate Deciduous Forest, SAY 574.5
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Rainforest
World Biomes Blue Planet Rainforest Biomes Tropical Evergreen Forest
If you enjoyed learning about this biome you might enjoy One Day in the Rainforest by Jean Craighead George for more fun
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Aquatic Biomes World Biomes Aquatic
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If you enjoyed learning about this biome you might enjoy reading Shark beneath the Reef by Jean Craighead George or Swimming with Sharks by Twig George.