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Learning Objective:

**1.06 Explain and evaluate some ways that humans affect ecosystems.**

 * ======**Habitat reduction due to development.**======
 * ======**Pollutants.**======
 * ======**Increased nutrients.**======

21st Century Skills:

 * ======**Creativity and Innovation**======
 * ======**Communication and Collaboration**======
 * ======**Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making**======

Cognitive Type/Skills:
Understanding, Analyzing, evaluating, creating

Activity:
** To be used with the Ecosystem unit. A class wiki will be created where the students can add onto the wiki daily. The students create 2 separate ecosystems (a terrarium and an aquarium) during this unit. At the point of connecting the ecocolumns together students will start recording their focus question from their science notebook, their prediction and/or conclusion where appropriate. This will be an ongoing collaborative gathering of information from the students on how the 2 ecosystems affect one another. The wiki will contain a daily digest of observations, and analysis from the students. During the stage of the unit when ecocolumns get polluted the students will be observing what happens but also evaluating how pollution affects humans. Since different groups use different pollutants the wiki will be a great way to compare all the results. Pictures can also be added to the wiki. ** 

Resources:
**Elementary science blackboard Ecosystem science kit **