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Ecosystem

4th Grade

Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE): S4L1.a.

Identify the roles of producers, consumers, and decomposers in a community.

Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE): S4L1.b.

Demonstrate the flow of energy through a food web/food chain beginning with sunlight and including producers, consumers, and decomposers.

Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE): S4L1.c.

Predict how changes in the environment would affect a community (ecosystem) of organisms.

Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE): S4L1.d.

Predict effects on a population if some of the plants or animals in the community are scarce or if there are too many.

Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE): S4L1.a

Develop a model to describe the roles of producers, consumers, and decomposers in a community.
(Clarification statement: Students are not expected to identify the different types of consumers – herbivores, carnivores, omnivores and scavengers.)

Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE): S4L1.b

Develop simple models to illustrate the flow of energy through a food web/food chain beginning with sunlight and including producers, consumers, and decomposers.

Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE): S4L1.c

Design a scenario to demonstrate the effect of a change on an ecosystem.
(Clarification statement: Include living and non-living factors in the scenario.)

Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE): S4L1.d

Use printed and digital data to develop a model illustrating and describing changes to the flow of energy in an ecosystem when plants or animals become scarce, extinct or overabundant.
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