Collect data from field, forest, and pond communities to gain insight into communities, succession, food webs, and population dynamics.
**Capacity may be limited in compliance with public health guidelines in effect on the day of your visit.
Grades 5-8 | Collect data from field, forest and pond communities to gain insight into communities, succession, food webs, and population dynamics.
Collect data from field, forest, and pond communities to gain insight into communities, succession, food webs, and population dynamics.
**Capacity may be limited in compliance with public health guidelines in effect on the day of your visit.
NYS Standards:
5-LS2-1 Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants (producers), animals (consumers), decomposers and the environment.
MS-LS2-3 Develop a model to describe the cycling of matter and flow of energy among living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem.
MS-LS1-6. Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for the role of photosynthesis in the cycling of matter and flow of energy into and out of organisms.
MS-LS2-1 Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem.
MS-LS2-4 Construct an argument supported by empirical evidence that changes to physical or biological components of an ecosystem affect populations.