ES-LS2.C-1

Minnow Meadow

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COMBINED RATING

4.3 Stars

TEACHERS (26)

4.2

STUDENTS (24434)

4.3

LENGTH

15 Minutes

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CAPABILITIES

iPad Support

Spanish Language Support

Text-to-Speech Support

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Description

Welcome to Minnow Meadow! Manage a growing village where your actions influence environment tiles. Hunt for food, chop down trees, and build new homes in your village each turn, but beware: the ecosystem is fragile, and exhaustion of resources could undermine your survival!

Vocabulary Words

ecosystem

abiotic

biotic

communities

producers

consumers

herbivores

resources

ecological succession

canopy

runoff

secondary succession

barren

reefs

drought

sustainable

Instructions

Play through this interactive game to learn about Ecosystem Dynamics, Functioning, and Resilience. Suitable for Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5.

Main Concepts

All organisms obtain living and nonliving resources from their environment.

Examples of living resources are plants and animals.

An ecosystem includes all of the living organisms and nonliving components in a shared environment.

Some changes to an environment are caused by natural processes, such as a wildfire, flood, drought, or volcanic eruption.

The availability of resources in an environment can change over time.

Examples of nonliving resources are sunlight, air, water, temperature, and soil.

The physical characteristics of an environment can change over time.

When an environment changes, some organisms will survive and reproduce.

Some changes to an environment are caused by human activities.

When an environment changes, some organisms will die.

An organism’s habitat provides food, water, shelter, and space.

Survival is the ability of an organism to stay alive in its environment.

Discussion Questions

Before the Game

What are examples of abiotic things in an ecosystem? What are examples of living, or biotic, things that are part of an ecosystem? What things do the people and other living things in an ecosystem need to survive?

After the Game

What is the difference between primary succession and secondary succession? What problems occurred that caused changes to your ecosystem? What is the advantage of building artificial reefs?

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