Reflect & Synthesize:
Answer the following questions in your blog post. Remember to have at least one follow-up sentence for each question, when possible.

1. What does food provide to animals, including humans?
2. Do the pet food and human food have the same nutrients? In what ways are they different?
3. Does a higher calorie count mean a food is better for pets to eat? What makes pet owners think that?
4. What is it in food that helps us repair our bodies and grow?
5. What in food helps us move and stay warm?
6. In what way does energy transfer when animals eat food?
7. Look at the nutrition label below for milk. How much energy is in the food?
8. What matter is in the food?

Answer the following questions while analyzing the Nutrition Labels:

1. As a result of looking at food labels, what did you learn about food?
2. Look at the ingredients of one human food label. Write down the food name. What ingredients came from animals?
3. What ingredients in the above food label came from plants?
4. What similarities and differences did you notice between the human food and pet food labels you looked at?
5. Choose an animal/insect from the ecosystem walk. What do you think it eats? Explain what you think it gets from its food.

1. The Kinder Pals is a  program to teach young kids very important life skills that will help them later in life. Also it encourages us to teach them in a fun way
2.It definitely helps them to be a better person and it is very helpful that they learn these skills at a young age.  Also it makes it very easy to have them to communicate their feeling and that is a very important thing especially now because it will make them understand that feelings will be a big thing in life 
3. I think that it is beneficial to us because it helps us to communicate with young children and it teaches us to be very patient with others. Also it teaches us to adjust to our pals mood or something because kindergarteners are hard to work with.  
4.I experienced the challenge trying to encourage good habits and making them really remember good behavior and bad behavior.
5.I think that they could try to make it a bit more appealing to the kindergarteners. Also I think that they could try not to go over the same things.
I think that my partner enjoyed most of the stories but some of them I think go a bit boring for my buddy. But also he easily noticed the characters and he was able to read the book. But I also think that the book was to predictable. 

Reflection/Synthesis:
Answer the following questions in your blog post. Remember to have at least one follow-up sentence for each question, when possible.

1. Name your Control Variables (What will stay the same for each of the three cups)?
2. Name the Independent Variable (What is it that is different for each of the three cups)?
3. Name your Dependent Variable (What is it that you are testing & recording data on?)
4. What data are you collecting to serve as Evidence to show how plants grow in organic material versus inorganic planting material?
5. Why is everyone starting with the same three cups? Why do we need to test so many plants?
6. What sprouts first in a seed: the stem or the root?
7. How do you know? How do the pictures below help explain your answer for #6?
8. Why do you think it goes in that order?

Reflection/Synthesis:
Answer the following questions in your blog post. Remember to have at least one follow-up sentence for each question, when possible.

1. Plants need energy and matter to grow. Where do plants get their ENERGY?
2. Where do plants get their MATTER?
3. Where do plants get their FOOD (be careful - this is a trick question)?
4. Why are plants called Producers?
5. What would happen if plants didn't have a way to get energy?
6. What would happen to animals if there were no plants to eat?
7. What are some of the LIVING components of a plant "system"? (A plant "system" is everything that a plant needs to survive and everything it produces.)
8. What are some of the NON-LIVING components of a plant "system"?
9. In what ways do the components of the system interact?
10. What matter is transported in and out of the plant system?

Answers




1.Well plants get their energy from lots of places, they include water soil and the sun

2.Plants get their matter from water and the sun and nutrients. and when they combine all of those it turns into soil.

3.First evolve plants don't get food they just get fertilizer and water and stuff so they don't need food

4.Becasue animals use plants for energy and plants make energy

5.Then plants would die of starvation of energy

​6.Well then the whole animal chain would collapse because there would be no glucose from plants
7. Nothing.

​8. Well it needs carbon dioxide water dire and light. The things it produces are oxygen and glucose.

9. Well the soil absorbs the the  water for the plant.

10.Well when the sun goes into the plant the plant uses the energy for glucose and when the plant gets eaten the animal gets the glucose.

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​Reflect & Synthesize:
Answer the following questions in your blog post. Remember to have at least one follow-up sentence for each question, when possible.

1. Choose one of your Food Chains that you created and explain how it works.
2. Can a Food Web be considered a "system"? Why or why not?
3. What happens if a plant or animal all of a sudden disappears from the food web?
4. Using this food chain, "sunlight to apple to worm to bird to cat," How do organisms in this food chain get the matter they need for body repair and growth?
5. Using the same food chain in #4, How do organisms in that food chain get the energy they need for body warmth and motion?
6. What do you think happens to the matter that is NOT used by the organisms in a food chain or food web? Is it wasted or does something else happen?

1. Well, That would probably have to be adding in all of our rights and making it sound Professions. All I did was I tried to ask my partner and I researched.

2. My favorite part of my preamble was when I said "We will banish the tyranny and slavery, oppression, and intolerance for all Mars" because that is a huge bad part of our world. 

It opens the people about what you will go over In your constitution.

Reflect & Synthesize:
Answer the following questions in your blog post. Remember to have at least one follow-up sentence for each question, when possible.

1. What do living things get from their ecosystems?
2. What evidence do you have to support your answer to Question 1?
3. What does the term ecosystem mean, based on your experience in this lesson? (Don't use the definition from the BIG IDEA here. Put it into your own words.)
4. Brainstorm at least one question you have about Ecosystems that you hope you learn from this unit.
5. Look at the image below that shows a portion of a forest ecosystem. Name at least five components (living or non-living things) of the ecosystem that you can either observe directly or infer. 
6. What are three (or more) interactions that might occur in this portion of the forest ecosystem?