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3a Students know ecosystems can be characterized by their living and nonliving components.
Holistic Rating: Moderate coverage of this standard.
| Pages CA2-CA9, 48-56 and 59 provide limited coverage of this standard. |
Aspects that help student learning:
Pages 52-53 explain that the combination of abiotic factors determines what types of plants and animals live in a particular ecosystem. It also makes the important point that organisms change the environment.
Aspects that do not help student learning:
The only developed example of an ecosystem is the White Mountains on pages CA2-CA4.
The team analogy on page 54 is misleading. Page 59 illustrates the dangers of using the team analogy in the anthropomorphizing sentence that states "organisms can help their ecosystem by doing their jobs and using resources carefully."
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