S4L1. Students will describe the roles of organisms and the flow of energy within an ecosystem.

1. Identify the roles of producers, consumers, and decomposers in a community.
   
2. Demonstrate the flow of energy through a food web/food chain beginning with
   sunlight and including producers, consumers, and decomposers.
   
3. Predict how changes in the environment would affect a community (ecosystem) of
   organisms.
   
4. Predicteffectsonapopulationifsomeoftheplantsoranimalsinthecommunityare
   scarce or if there are too many.
   

S4L2. Students will identify factors that affect the survival or extinction of organisms such as adaptation, variation of behaviors (hibernation), and external features (camouflage and protection).
     a. Identify external features of organisms that allow them to survive or reproduce better than                                  organisms that do not have these features (for example: camouflage, use of hibernation, protection, etc.).
     b. Identify factors that may have led to the extinction of some organisms 

Resources:
"What is an ecosystem?" video http://www.neok12.com/php/watch.php?v=zX7d0b756f7154415351047f&t=Ecosystems

Consumers, Producers, Decomposers Game http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/games/producersconsumersgame.htm

Food Chain Game
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/foodchain/foodchain.htm

Carnivores, Herbivores, Omnivores Game
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/animaldiet/omnivore.htm

Create your own food web.
http://www.gould.edu.au/foodwebs/kids_web.htm

Math Standards: 

MCC4.NBT.1 Recognize that in a multi-digit whole number, a digit in one place represents ten times what it represents in the place to its right. For example, recognize that 700 ÷ 70 = 10 by applying concepts of place value and division. 
MCC4.NBT.2 Read and write multi-digit whole numbers using base-ten numerals, number names, and expanded form. Compare two multi-digit numbers based on meanings of the digits in each place, using >, =, and < symbols to record the results of comparisons. 

Essential Questions: 

• How can I represent numbers?
• How do we read and write numbers using base ten numerals, number names, and expanded form?

Important Vocabulary 

Standard Form (Base ten numerals)

1,789,326

Expanded Form

1,000,000 + 700,000 + 80,000 + 9,000 + 300 + 20 + 6

Number Name

One million, seven hundred eighty-nine thousand, three hundred twenty-six

*Remember to put a hyphen between any number between 0 and 99 that is two words. (twenty-four, seventy-one, ninety-nine)

Period

Each group of 3 digits in a number

Each period is seperated by a comma



For example, the digits 281 are in the ones period.

Extra Practice

http://www.newton.k12.ks.us/tech/fourth_grade_internet_activities1.htm 

Place Value Quiz, Place Value Practice

http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/math4/d/expandedform4l.cfm

 Scroll down to standard NBT2.
http://www.ixl.com/standards/common-core/math/grade-4

Welcome back to school!!! 

I hope you are as excited as I am to return to school! I cannot wait to meet each of my new students on Tuesday! I am greatly anticipating our first day on Wednesday. Enjoy your last few days of summer, and get ready for a super fun year of learning!