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This video is Part I of an Ecology: Interactions Unit Powerpoint that can be downloaded at http://sciencepowerpoint.com/index.html

Teaching Duration = 5+ Weeks
Please visit http://sciencepowerpoint.com/index.html to see the whole unit + the 800+ slide Powerpoint presentation, assessments, and class notes that become the road map for an exciting and interactive unit full of lab activities, challenge questions, discussion questions, project ideas, assessments, modified assessment, Jeopardy games, answer keys, videos, and much more.

The Ecology: Interactions Unit covers ecology topics associated with the topic: Everything Is Connected to Each Other: Biological Organization, Competition, Food Webs, Predator Prey Relationships, Camouflage, Mimicry, Adaptations, Feeding Relationships and Exotic Species. (See list below for more topics covered). This unit includes an interactive and engaging Powerpoint Presentation of 800+ slides with built in class notes (Red Slides), lab activities, project ideas, discussion questions, assessments (Quiz Wiz), and challenge questions with answers. Text is in large print (32 font) and is placed at the top of each slide so it can seen and read from all angles of a classroom. Also included is a 8 page (Microsoft 2003 word doc.) assessment / bundled homework that chronologically goes with the slideshow for nightly homework and the end of the unit assessment, as well as a 6 page modified assessment. 8 pages of class notes (Word doc.) with images are also included for students who require modifications, as well as answer keys to both of the assessments for support professionals, teachers, and homeschool parents. 10 video shorts (FLV files) are provided and a slide within the slideshow cues teacher / parent when the videos are most relevant to play. Video shorts usually range from 2-7 minutes and are included in organized folders. One Powerpoint review game is included. Answers to the Powerpoint review game are provided in Powerpoint form so students can self-assess. Lastly, several class games such as guess the hidden picture beneath the boxes, and the find the hidden owl somewhere within the slideshow are provided. Difficulty rating of 5 (Ten is most difficult).

Areas of Focus within The Ecology: Interactions Unit: Levels of Biological Organization (Ecology), Parts of the Biosphere, Habitat, Ecological Niche, Types of Competition, Competitive Exclusion Theory, Animal Interactions, Food Webs, Predator Prey Relationships, Camouflage, Population Sampling, Abundance, Relative Abundance, Diversity, Mimicry, Batesian Mimicry, Mullerian Mimicry, Symbiosis, Parasitism, Mutualism, Commensalism, Plant and Animal Interactions, Coevolution, Animal Strategies to Eat Plants, Plant Defense Mechanisms, Exotic Species, Impacts of Invasive Exotic Species.

Please visit www.sciencepowerpoint.com to download this unit and learn more about this exciting and interactive approach to science education. Please view Part II of III on a neighboring video. Less