SONG!: "Biodiversity" by Billy B.

Bio-Bio-Biodiversity,
all life living in this community.
Bio-Bio-Biodiversity,
spaces, species, and the family tree.
Bio-Bio-Biodiversity,
all around and inside you and me.
Bio-Bio-Biodiversity,
so important to the world community.
I want, I want, I want whales in the oceans.
I want rhinos living free.
I want all forests growing.
I want Biodiversity.
We need rain forest medicine.
We need coral in the sea.
We need flower pollination.
We need Biodiversity.
Right Now!
It’s a big world we discover,
when we go out every day.
All the life forms live together,
interacting many ways.
Bees need flowers.
Flowers need bees.
That’s pollinating power!
fruit around seeds.
CHORUS
It’s a forest we discover,
when we’re there among the trees.
All the mushrooms and the beetles
and the worms under the leaves.
In the oceans, fish swim and feed
among the coral habitat they need.
CHORUS

SONG!: "All We Need to Do" from Bill Nye

LYRICS

Watching groups of living things
Tryin’ to find their reasoning
Get the scope, and watch some more

Populations I have seen
Are made of groups of living things
And if you’re keepin’ score

They compete for food
They compete for homes
Populations all compete
As everybody knows

Populations
There are different populations
Competing to survive
Populations
And watching populations
We learn about life

The human race is growing fast
Other populations might not last
Some species are gone forever

Now we’ve got to watch what we do
Let other species live here too
We can all be here together

We compete for food
We compete for homes
Populations all compete
As everybody knows

Populations
There are different populations
Competing to survive
Populations
And watching populations
We learn about life

Ecosystem Assignment

Hello 4th Graders!

Welcome to another fabulous online assignment! You will need to listen carefully, pause the animation, and rewind to re-listen to complete this assignment well. Good luck!

Here are the links you will need:
Food Web
Microorganisms at Work
Energy Flow

When you are done, you may explore the following areas on portaporal:
Science > Animals > Animal Adaptations
Science > Ecosystems/Biomes
Science > Food Webs
Science > Plants > Plants: Adaptations

Expand your brain and have fun!
-Ms. Bragg

Your First Online Assignment: Ecosystems!

Good morning class!

Welcome to your first blog assignment!

We've already visited with Mr. Bill Nye on the subject of Food Webs. Today we're going to continue our ecological research with some online activities. We'll check in with Tim and Moby to see what they have to say on the subject. You're going to watch 3 BrainPop videos, take a quiz on each, and draw quality pictures/diagrams to describe what you've learned. You've got a packet of all the materials you'll need. The diagrams you create will become a part of your science notebook, which will be a record of what you've studied this year. It will also help you study for your future tests/quizzes.

REMEMBER: In order to use BrainPop, you need to login-- username: tjelem, password: tiger. (Note: TJ's membership will only work during school hours).

Here are the links to the videos:
Ecosystems
Food Chains
Natural Selection

When you are done, you may explore the following areas on portaporal:
Science > Animals > Animal Adaptations
Science > Ecosystems/Biomes
Science > Food Webs
Science > Plants > Plants: Adaptations

Expand your brain and have fun!
-Ms. Bragg