ECOSYSTEMS
Do we live in an ecosystem?
Yes
What color is pollen?
Yellow
What bug are you researching?
Spider, ladybug, bees, butterflies, beetles
What is the definition of your main idea?
What the story or passage is about/what the purpose of the story or passage is.
Is a plant part of an ecosystem?
Yes
What is pollen?
A yellow powder on flowers.
Does your bug live in an ecosystem?
Yes.
What is a detail?
A fact to describe the main idea.
Name something living and non-living in an ecosystem.
Living: people, animals, plants
Non-living: air, dirt, Pringles (food), water
What is pollination?
Moving pollen from one plant to another.
How does your bug get food from its surroundings?
...
What is the main idea of this passage?:
Flowers are helpful to people and bugs. They make air, or oxygen, that we can breathe. Also, they are very nice to look at, and they smell good. Flowers are helpful to bugs because they make nectar.
Flowers are helpful to people and bugs.
What is an ecosystem?
Why do plants need bugs?
To pollinate them.
For energy.
What is a detail in this passage?
Flowers are helpful to people and bugs. They make air, or oxygen, that we can breathe. Also, they are very nice to look at, and they smell good. Flowers are helpful to bugs because they make nectar.
They make air for people to breathe, they are pretty, they smell good, they make nectar
Is this classroom an ecosystem?
Yes.
Why do bugs need plants?
For food and water.