ECOSYSTEMS

**5.L.2** Understand the interdependence of plants and animals with their ecosystem || **5.L.2.1** Compare the characteristics of several common ecosystems, including estuaries and salt marshes, oceans, lakes and ponds, forests, and grassland ||
 * **Essential Standard Goal** || **Essential Standards Objectives** ||
 * **Ecosystems**
 * || **5.L.2.2** Classify the organisms within an ecosystem according to the function they serve: producers, consumers, or decomposers (biotic factors) ||
 * || **5.L.2.3** Infer the effects that may result from the interconnected relationship of plants and animals to their ecosystem ||

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 * = **Suggested Pacing Guide and Activities** ||= **Other Resources** ||= **Websites** ||= **Coach Book Resources** || **Formative Assessments** ||= <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Suggested Pre/Post Assessment** ||
 * **//(Needs suggested pacing in a Word Doc and then uploaded here)//** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[[file:Biome Research Project_Tori.doc]]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[[file:Ecosystems Research Page.docx]]
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