Wetlands Web

As an assessment, review the Futures Channel Movie “A Wetlands Refuge,” stopping five or six times as it plays and asking students to write down at least two ways in which the plant or animal pictured at that point interacts with some other plant or animal that lives in the wetlands.

Subject: Environmental Science
Topics: Ecology/Coastal Wetlands
Grades: 6 - 12
Concepts:
- Producer
- Consumer
- Decomposer
- Ecology
Knowledge and Skills:
- Knows that the species in a habitat depend on each other for survival
- Can give examples of relationships among producers, consumers and decomposers in a habitat

Download Activity: Wetlands Web (PDF)

Wildlife RefugeA Wildlife Refuge:

Near the Gulf Coast of Texas extends a 44,000-acre refuge full of alligators, armadillos, coyotes, and lots and lots of birds. The Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge is a sanctuary for nearly 350 different bird species that migrate south for the winter every year. Show your students the science and math wildlife biologists use to maintain a safe haven for these animals.
Running time 5:37 minutes.

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