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**1.04:** Discuss and determine the role of light, temperature and soil composition in an ecosystem’s capacity to support life.
 * **Lesson 7:** || What makes an ecosystem exist/thrive and what are the connections to biomes?[[image:nature width="198" height="89" align="right"]][[image:volcano width="194" height="94" align="right"]] ||
 * **Standards Addressed:** || **Science**

**__ELA Common Core Standards__** **RI.5.3.:** Explain the relationships or interactions between two or more individuals, events, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text based on specific information in the text. ||
 * **Lesson Objective:** || Students will understand the difference between essential abiotic and biotic factors in an ecosystem and will have been introduced to key vocabulary (basics of abiotic/biotic). ||
 * **Assessment:** || Discussion question: What are some connections between the video and the photographs you took while playing Crystal Island? ||
 * **Tools:** || SMART board, projector, computers ||
 * **Introduction:** || Today, we are going identify the essential components in an ecosystem. ||
 * **Procedures:** || # <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Students will classify essential factors in an ecosystem from the list provided by the teacher. Students must identify the categories in which they are putting each term. Students will share out different classifications they generated in their group. List of essential factors: water, sunlight, rocks, air, soil, trees, plants, animals, dead plants, worms, insects, moss, grass and sediment
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Define abiotic versus biotic factors in an ecosystem. Now, go back to your classifications. Regroup all the categories into abiotic and biotic factors. Share all abiotic and biotic factors on list.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Play Crystal Island for about 20 minutes. Students will be responsible for taking pictures of 4 abiotic factors and 4 biotic factors as they play the game. Students should label each picture as “biotic” or “abiotic.”
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Watch “The Role of Abiotic Factors” on United Streaming. Discussion question: What are some connections between the video and the photographs you took while playing Crystal Island? ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">**Materials/ Resources:** || # <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">“The Role of Abiotic Factors” on United Streaming. @http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=2C732E32-E564-4F96-A45C-3BF6D0BAFB1E&blnFromSearch=1&productcode=US
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Crystal Island ||