MIKE IN THE MIDDLE SCHOOL
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Ecology in Middle School

Hands on learning in the environment is the best way to learn in middle school.  These labs provide a balance of field work and modeling in the classroom to help engage your students.   Click on any of the images below to learn more about these products. 
Middle school students need to get outside and experience science. This field lab allows students to do a simple quadrat observation study in any green space around your school or during a field trip. This is a real technique used by ecologist to study populations in nature. This lab asks students to make descriptive observations of plant and animal populations in a small area.
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his lesson is designed to have students experience the concept of your local watershed. We all live in a watershed and this digital lab ask students to look at their surrounding with a critical eye. Using a camera, ipad or phone, students collect images of land use around your school building as it relates to water.
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This hands-on activity is designed to allow students to model non-point-source pollution in the classroom. This lesson goes great with units on watersheds, pollution and ecology. Students get to choose their “Land-Use” to create and color a model
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​This middle school ecology lesson contains graphically engaging, edible content presentation for students along with recorded online video presentation
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Individual Ecology Lessons

Included in these series of lessons are everything you need to teach a 40 minute lesson on ecology to middle school students.  From an editable presentation, notes to reinforcement activities.  These lessons are sure to enhance your classroom. 
Ecology Lesson 1 for Middle School:  An introduction. 
Ecology Lesson 2 for Middle School:  Biotic Factors
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  • Blog
  • Professional Development
    • Designing Online Content for Middle School
    • HyFlex Classroom
  • Sequenced Lesson Plans
    • Earthquakes for Middle School
    • Teaching Science Process
    • Metric Measurement
    • Cells
    • Geologic Time
    • Genetics in Middle School
    • Computer Skills
    • Google Apps in Middle School Science
    • Ecology
  • My TPT Store