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Unit 3: Plant Ecology

Duration of Days: 16

• LP 3.1: How to evaluate environmental disturbances and model how ecological communities transition through primary and secondary succession scales.
• LP 3.2: How to construct and interpret double-axis climographs (mapping temperature line graphs alongside precipitation bar graphs) to identify regional weather patterns.
• LP 3.3: How global temperature and precipitation barriers interact to determine the boundaries of world biomes and dictate necessary plant adaptations.

• DCI: LS2.A (Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems); LS2.C (Ecosystem Dynamics, Functioning, and Resilience): Investigating how communities respond to setbacks, compete for resources, and stabilize over time.
• SEP: Developing and Using Models; Analyzing and Interpreting Data: Constructing double-axis climatic graphs and evaluating ecological secondary succession sequences.
• CCC: Stability and Change; Patterns; Cause and Effect: Mapping how physical abiotic climate constraints create predictable biological patterns and trigger specific evolutionary adaptations across local and global scales.

 

• 4.a. Demonstrate Patterns - Graphical: Generating accurate double-axis climographs by plotting raw metric data—mapping monthly precipitation as vertical bar graphs alongside monthly average temperatures as continuous line graphs.

• 4.b. Compare Data - Consistency: Evaluating data consistency across distinct geographical climate tables and biome profiles to determine global environmental limits.

• 5.c. Use Evidence/Theory - Reasoning: Synthesizing ecological principles (such as nutrient accumulation and pioneer communities) to explain how an ecosystem transitions toward stability after a setback.

• 5.d. Present Arguments - Defend/Refute: Constructing an interconnected concept map that follows strict structural rules to defend or refute claims regarding successional tracks, climatic drivers, and matching plant adaptations
Lesson # Lesson Title Duration of Days
1 Ecosystem Foundations and Successional Shifts 5
2 Climate Dynamics and Climograph Modeling 4
3 Global Biomes and Plant Adaptations 4
4 Ecological Synthesis and Final Evaluation 3