Wetland Ecosystems
Outdoor Classroom Day! Exploring a Wetland
Interactions between Living and Nonliving
All living (biotic) organisms and non-living (abiotic) are connected to each other.
Plant and Animal Life
We have learned about many of the different types of life in a wetland. We have also talked about their different roles! Producer, Consumer, and Decomposer!
Let's look at Life Cycles too!
All Animals Play an important Role
Food Webs and Food Chains
Adaptations
Oxygen from Water or Air?
Human Action
Which groups help Save the Environment!!
Ducks Unlimited Canada
North American Waterfowl Management Plan (NAWMP)
Alberta NAWMP Partnership (ANP)
You!!!
Donate a wetland or money, reduce pollution, protect and serve by picking up garbage, use environmentally friendly pesticides, pull invasive weeds like purple loosestrife, pick up after yourself, write letters to the government and advocate for wetlands, create a man-made wetland.
North American Waterfowl Management Plan (NAWMP)
Alberta NAWMP Partnership (ANP)
You!!!
Donate a wetland or money, reduce pollution, protect and serve by picking up garbage, use environmentally friendly pesticides, pull invasive weeds like purple loosestrife, pick up after yourself, write letters to the government and advocate for wetlands, create a man-made wetland.
General Learner Expectations Students will:
Describe the living and nonliving components of a wetland ecosystem and the interactions within and among them.
Specific Learner Expectations
Students will:
1. Recognize and describe one or more examples of wetland ecosystems found in the local area; e.g., pond, slough, marsh, bog, fen.
2. Understand that a wetland ecosystem involves interactions between living and nonliving things, both in and around the water.
3. Identify some plants and animals found at a wetland site, both in and around the water; and describe the life cycles of these plants and animals.
4. Identify and describe adaptations that make certain plants and animals suited for life in a wetland.
5. Understand and appreciate that all animals and plants, not just the large ones, have an important role in a wetland community.
6. Identify the roles of different organisms in the food web of a pond:
• producers—green plants that make their own food, using sunlight
• consumers—animals that eat living plants and/or animals
• decomposers—organisms, such as molds, fungi, insects and worms, that reuse and recycle materials that were formerly living.
7. Draw diagrams of food chains and food webs, and interpret such diagrams.
8. Recognize that some aquatic animals use oxygen from air and others from water, and identify examples and adaptations of each.
9. Identify human actions that can threaten the abundance or survival of living things in wetland ecosystems; e.g., adding pollutants, changing the flow of water, trapping or hunting pond wildlife.
10. Identify individual and group actions that can be taken to preserve and enhance wetland habitats.
11. Recognize that changes in part of an environment have effects on the whole environment.
Describe the living and nonliving components of a wetland ecosystem and the interactions within and among them.
Specific Learner Expectations
Students will:
1. Recognize and describe one or more examples of wetland ecosystems found in the local area; e.g., pond, slough, marsh, bog, fen.
2. Understand that a wetland ecosystem involves interactions between living and nonliving things, both in and around the water.
3. Identify some plants and animals found at a wetland site, both in and around the water; and describe the life cycles of these plants and animals.
4. Identify and describe adaptations that make certain plants and animals suited for life in a wetland.
5. Understand and appreciate that all animals and plants, not just the large ones, have an important role in a wetland community.
6. Identify the roles of different organisms in the food web of a pond:
• producers—green plants that make their own food, using sunlight
• consumers—animals that eat living plants and/or animals
• decomposers—organisms, such as molds, fungi, insects and worms, that reuse and recycle materials that were formerly living.
7. Draw diagrams of food chains and food webs, and interpret such diagrams.
8. Recognize that some aquatic animals use oxygen from air and others from water, and identify examples and adaptations of each.
9. Identify human actions that can threaten the abundance or survival of living things in wetland ecosystems; e.g., adding pollutants, changing the flow of water, trapping or hunting pond wildlife.
10. Identify individual and group actions that can be taken to preserve and enhance wetland habitats.
11. Recognize that changes in part of an environment have effects on the whole environment.