New Page 2 Ballard's Home Page Ballard 5th grade students are involved in hands on activities to learn about ecology. They then add crickets and isopods . They also set up an aquarium, into which they introduce snails, guppies , elodea , algae and duckweed. Our terrarium is finished. They then use a food chain wheel to make inferences about the effect of these pollutants might have on their own miniature ecosystem.
Ecology is the scientific study of the interrelationships of plants, animals, and the environment.
In recent years, the word has sometimes been misused as a synonym for environment. The principles of ecology are useful in many aspects of the related fields of conservation, wildlife management, forestry, agriculture, and pollution control.