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Unit 6-Week 1 Day 1
Theme Question: How are living things connected?• What roles do the parts of an
ecosystem play? (Wk 1)• Why do living things need each other?
(Wk 2)• What happens when there are changes
to an ecosystem? (Wk 3)• How do people play a part in ecosystems? (Wk 4)
Living or Non Living Things?
Living or Non Living Things
birds dirt
trees water
flowers sun
insects air
ReadingPreview and Predict
pp. 320-325
PurposeFind answers to the Theme
Question.Set your own purpose.
Unit 6-Week 1 Day 2
Theme Question: How are living things connected?• What roles do the parts of an
ecosystem play? (Wk 1)• Why do living things need each other?
(Wk 2)• What happens when there are changes
to an ecosystem? (Wk 3)• How do people play a part in ecosystems? (Wk 4)
Making Inferencespage
#What I Read What I Know Inferences
p. 320 My own yard is an ecosystem.
Trees and grass are outside my door.
Trees and grass are in the ecosystem.
p. 321
Make Inferences
ReadingPreview and Predict
(pp. 326-331): Balance in the Wild
PurposeFind answers to the Theme
Question.Set your own purpose.
Unit 6-Week 1, Day 3
What is the Theme Question?
Name the three theme vocabulary words and their meanings?
Connotation and DenotationPage # Connotation
* Is the feeling a word might give you.
Denotation*The actual meaning of the word.
p. 320 communities –positive showing people getting along and working together.
communities –the people living in a certain place or the area itself.
Categorize and ClassifyHow can I sort the ecosystems into groups?
Page # Water ecosystems Land ecosystems
pp. 320-321
ReadingReread
Pp. 320-331
PurposeFocus on how text features provide
important information about the text and help them answer the Theme Question.
Word StudyGreek and Latin Roots
bio- life -ology: the science of; the study ofbi- two -cycle: ring; circleact- active
1. If bio- means “life”, what does biology mean?
2. If bi- means “two”, what does bicycle mean?
Week 1, Day 4What is the Theme Question?
Name the three theme vocabulary words and their meanings.What’s the first word that comes
to mind when you hear each word?
Theme Vocabulary How do you think the living and
nonliving things around us are connected? Use the following words to answer the question:
Food chain living thing Food web nonliving thing Producer interdependence Survive habitat