Review the Academic Content Standards related to this lesson. Investigate, in small groups, the locations, characteristics, and natural and human dangers to biomes. Create illustrated classroom posters dedicated to their biomes that incorporate all of the information gained through research.
Students then share their responses.
Do not erase this information, as students will need to refer to it later in the class period. After completing their biome research, each group develops an illustrated classroom poster dedicated to their biome that incorporates all of the information gained through research. In a future class, groups should present their posters and display them in the classroom, and discuss why it is important to know about the world's biomes and what they can learn and how can their lives be improved by knowing about ecological communities. Students will be evaluated based on written journal response, participation in class discussions, group research of a biome, and group-developed classroom poster incorporating all research topics. Learn about the diverse living things that make up the biome studied in class.