Ecological Explorations

Collect data from field, forest and pond communities to gain insight into communities, succession, food webs, and population dynamics.

**Capacity may be limited in compliance with public health guidelines in effect on the day of your visit.

 

Subjects: Life Science
Program Type: Cumming Nature Center Experiences
NYS Standards:

• 5-LS2-1 Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants (producers), animals (consumers), decomposers and the environment.

• MS-LS2-3 Develop a model to describe the cycling of matter and flow of energy among living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem.

• MS-LS1-6. Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for the role of photosynthesis in the cycling of matter and flow of energy into and out of organisms.

• MS-LS2-1 Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem.

• MS-LS2-4 Construct an argument supported by empirical evidence that changes to physical or biological components of an ecosystem affect populations.

NGSS Keywords: Life Science, Ecosystems. Structure, Function & Information Processing, Organisms, Plants & Animals

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