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Unit Plan Template (Part 1)
Part 1: Textbook Concept list
Concept
Understand how the greenhouse effect maintains the biosphere’s temperature range
Identify Earth’s three main climate zones
Explain how biotic and abiotic factors influence an ecosystem
Understand the different interactions between communities; predatory, symbiotic ect.
Identify unique characteristics of the world’s major biomes
Understand the main factors that govern aquatic ecosystems
Identify the two types of freshwater ecosystems
Explain the differences between the marine zones, and give unique characteristics of each.
Part 2: Illinois Learning Standards Concept List
Concept
Descriptor
12.B.4a
Compare physical, ecological and behavioral
factors that influence interactions and
interdependence of organisms.
12.B.4b
12.B.3a
12.B.3b
Simulate and analyze factors that influence
the size and stability of populations within
ecosystems (e.g., birth rate, death rate,
predation, migration patterns).
Identify and classify biotic and abiotic
factors in an environment that affect
population density, habitat and placement of
organisms in an energy pyramid.
Compare and assess features of organisms
for their adaptive, competitive and survival
potential (e.g., appendages, reproductive
Definitely, Maybe, or Don’t Include?
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Maybe
Definitely
Maybe
Definitely
Definitely
Definitely
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Definitely
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Definitely
rates, camouflage, and defensive structures).
Explain interactions of energy with matter
including changes of state and conservation
of mass and energy.
12.C.3a
No
Use the table below to complete part 3 of your Unit Plan Assignment
Concept
Understand how the greenhouse effect
maintains the biosphere’s temperature
range
Identify Earth’s three main climate
zones
This Unit, Another Unit, or Leave
Out?
This Unit
Another Unit
Explain how biotic and abiotic factors
influence an ecosystem
This Unit
Understand the different interactions
between communities; predatory,
Another Unit
Rationale
This is a fundamental
concept that is crucial to
understanding why life
formed, currently exists, and
why extinction is on the rise
(especially in the oceans)
I believe this would be more
applicable to a meteorology
chapter. It is important
material and should not be
skipped, but I think it would
fit in better in another area.
Students need to understand
that non-living (abiotic)
factors have an enormous
influence on our world. Just
because it doesn’t “breath”
doesn’t mean it has no
influence.
I believe that this can be
further analyzed as students
Related ILS
symbiotic ect.
Identify unique characteristics of the
world’s major biomes
This Unit
Understand the main factors that govern
aquatic ecosystems
This Unit
Identify the two types of freshwater
ecosystems
This Unit
Explain the differences between the
marine zones, and give unique
characteristics of each.
This Unit
focus more on animals and
not so much on their
surroundings.
This can help students
solidify the differences
between the biomes. Having
this knowledge can also help
them critically problem solve
information, such as where a
certain animal might live.
Marine environments are
very foreign to most students
since we are dry-land
dwellers. We think very
rarely in true 3-D living
since we cannot fly. Marine
animals however can move
in all three axes and are
governed by different forces.
Freshwater ecosystems are
very unique and incredibly
rare when you stop and think
that only 3% of the world’s
water is fresh. Knowing
these ecosystems is
important so students can
understand what a precious
resource this is.
If freshwater ecosystems are
unique, then marine
ecosystems are complex.
There are several levels that
the ocean is divided into,
each one containing unique
flora and fauna.
Use the table below to complete parts 4 & 5 of your Unit Plan Assignment.
Concept
Understand how the greenhouse effect
maintains the biosphere’s temperature range
Explain how biotic and abiotic factors
influence an ecosystem
Objective(s) TWSBAT (The Student Will Be Able To…)
 TWSBAT understand how Carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor, and a few
other atmospheric gases trap heat energy and maintain Earth’s temperature
range
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Identify unique characteristics of the world’s
major biomes
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
Understand the main factors that govern
aquatic ecosystems
Identify the two types of freshwater
ecosystems
Explain the differences between the marine
zones, and give unique characteristics of
each.
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TWSBAT explain how biotic and abiotic factors determine the survival and
growth of an organism.
TWSBAT determine how biotic and abiotic factors determine the productivity
of the ecosystem in which an organism lives.
TWSBAT identify the major biomes.
TWSBAT analyze the differences between major biomes, including: tropical
rainforest, tropical dry forest, tropical savanna, temperate grassland, desert,
temperate woodland and shrubland, temperate forest, northwestern coniferous
forest, boreal forest, and tundra
TWSBAT understand that aquatic ecosystems are determined primarily by the
depth, flow, temperature, and chemistry of the overlying water.
TWSBAT identify that the two main types of freshwater ecosystems are:
flowing-water ecosystems and standing-water ecosystems
TWSBAT explain the differences between the zones: intertidal, neritic,
euphotic, photic, aphotic, abyssal
Use the table below to complete part 6 of your Unit Plan Assignment.
Units Preceding This One
A unit on different types of
animals. Should have an
emphasis on marine life.
Reasoning
This Chapter, while it covers
both land and marine
environments, goes farther indepth with the marine
ecosystems. I believe that
having background knowledge
on animals can be of benefit to
this
Unit Following This One
Weather, focusing on storms
and weather patterns. Climate
can also be here.
Reasoning
Now that the students
understand the different biomes
and how they interact, they can
start to understand and
appreciate how weather and
climate has a huge influence on
what creatures we see where.