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Focus Skill 3: Know the role of producers and decomposers in an ecosystem a. Identify producers b. Identify decomposers c. Sort decomposers from producers d. match producers with ecosystem e. match decomposers with ecosystem

Focus skill 4: Know levels of the energy pyramid a. Identify consumers, producers, and decomposers b. When given pictures of consumers, producers, and decomposers, will sequence energy pyramid.

What is an ecosystem?

Everything in the natural world is connected. An ecosystem is a community of living and non-living things that work together. Ecosystems have no particular size.

Here are some ecosystems.







All ecosystems have decomposers, producers, and consumers.







What do you think comes first in the cycle? Why?



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(pass out packet and have students sort consumers, producers, and decomposers. then have them build energy pyramid)