The Art of Teaching

For this week, our task was to look through the articles we have completed blog posts on for the last few weeks and choose three words to focus on for its vocabulary. When Perel and I were discussing the three terms we wanted to focus on this week, we wanted to make sure we selected vocabulary terms that students would encounter while learning about the different food chains that have been observed across the globe. In our discussion we were able to narrow down our top three words to food web/chain, ecology, and ecosystems. We chose the word food chains from our first article called “Disappearing sea Ice could Disrupt Arctic’s food web” because the overall topic we have been focusing on over the past three weeks was on aquatic or marine food chains/ food webs. For one to identify new food chains, researchers must be able to look within the habitat and community where organisms dwell their end. The term use to describe this community is referred to as an ecosystem which was found