The Art of Teaching

The article discussed this week can be found below: Researchers show that smaller area means not only fewer species, but also, shorter food chains. (2013, November 25).   News Medical Life Science. Retrieved from: https://www.news-medical.net/news/20131125/Researchers-show-that-smaller-area-means-not-only-fewer-species-but-also-shorter-food-chains.aspx             To continue our knowledge on determining which text is appropriate to introduce our students to, Pearl and I have chosen to continue with the topic of food chains due to its versatility. For the past two weeks, the overall message of the articles we have used have had a heavy focus on how our actions have influenced the world around us. Specifically, these articles presented the problem that animal habitats are not how we have once known them to be. Where our actions such as littering, and emission of greenhouse gases have nearly devastated the primary produc...

The article discussed this week can be found below: National Geographic Society. (2019). The Earth’s vast food chain under the seas. Retrieved from Newsela website: https://newsela.com/read/natgeo-marine-food-chain/id/49887/# In continuing our journey on finding the best literature for our students, I am taking all of my observations and thoughts from last week and I am keeping those concepts and ideas in mind as I continue. This week, Pearl and I decided to select an article that continues to support our topic of ecosystems and food chains. We decided to continue with this topic because there are multiple factors that contribute to the appearance of a food web or chain. For instance, I mentioned that high school students learn about the environmental factors that give rise to food chains and this week our article focuses on one of the ecosystems for living organisms and that is marine or aquatic habitats. When conducting on our search for articles that pertain to foo...

           In furthering our knowledge about finding texts that best suits our students, subject matter is one of the most crucial things to consider when determining which text is best for our students to use. When Pearl and I were talking about which topic to work on we concluded that we should pick a topic where wanted to focus on ecosystems and food webs. This topic is one that is first introduced to in middle school and is further elaborated on in high school. For instance, in middle school, we are first introduced to the food web as the primary producer serves as the food source for the primary consumer. The primary consumer then feeds the secondary consumer and it keeps going in this cycle until the top predator has been accounted for. When our students are in the high school biology class, they are then introduced to the different environmental factors that give rise to the different food webs we see in the world. The hope of...