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  • Pre-Assessment
  • Activities
    • 1: The Forest of S.T. Shrew
    • 2: A Home for Many
    • 3: Web of Life
    • 4: Power Plants
    • 5: Every Tree for Itself
    • 6: Invasive Species
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Pre-Assessment — Energy in Ecosystems

This pre-assessment activity enables you to gauge students’ current knowledge on the topic of energy in ecosystems. Remember to save the completed pre-assessment student pages for later comparison, as the post-assessment exercise at the end of this unit contains the same questions. This repetition allows teachers to effectively evaluate knowledge gains over time.

Time Considerations

Getting Ready: 10 minutes
Doing the Activity: 20–40 minutes

Materials

  • Copies of Energy in Ecosystems — Pre-Assessment student page

Getting Ready

  • Make copies of the student page.

Doing the Activity

  1. Give each student a copy of the Energy in Ecosystems — Pre-Assessment student page and allow students time to complete it. Explain to students that their responses will be used to guide instruction over the coming weeks and to help them see how much they have learned; it will NOT be graded. Encourage students to do the best they can to answer the questions. Collect all responses after students have finished.
  2. Explain to students that over the next few weeks they will be exploring the topic of energy in ecosystems. Ask students what they know about ecosystems and what questions they have about them.

Answer Key

See the Pre- and Post-Assessment Answer Key teacher page for the correct responses to the student page questions.

ENERGY IN ECOSYSTEMS

  • Introduction

ACTIVITIES

  • Pre-Assessment
  • 1: The Forest of S.T. Shrew
  • 2: A Home for Many
  • 3: Web of Life
  • 4: Power Plants
  • 5: Every Tree for Itself
  • 6: Invasive Species
  • Post-Assessment

APPENDICES

  • Standards Connections
  • Additional Resources
  • PLT Conceptual Framework
  • Acknowledgements
  • Technical Support

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