{"id":1608,"date":"2018-01-02T11:56:42","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T16:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/?page_id=1608"},"modified":"2019-04-15T16:24:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T20:24:33","slug":"student-experience-4-what-do-decomposers-do","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/getting-started-interdependence\/driving-question-pathway-the-mystery-at-sunrise-farm-pond\/the-mystery-at-sunrise-farm-pond-part-two\/student-experience-4-what-do-decomposers-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Experience 4: What do decomposers do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/decomposers.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1817 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/decomposers.png\" alt=\"decomposers\" width=\"125\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/getting-started-interdependence\/driving-question-pathway-the-mystery-at-sunrise-farm-pond\/the-mystery-at-sunrise-farm-pond-part-two\/student-experience-4-what-do-decomposers-do\/print\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Print\">Print<\/a>\n<h3><em>Purpose<\/em><\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>To help students understand that decomposers recycle nutrients in an ecosystem.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3><em>Description<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>Students have seen images of decomposers leading to the rotting of various foods and helping to make compost.\u00a0 Begin by asking students for their thoughts about decomposers\u2019 role in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/ecosystem\/\" target=\"_blank\">ecosystem<\/a>.\u00a0 After discussing their ideas, watch the following videos.<\/p>\n<p><u>NOVA: <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='Textbooks often describe consumers and decomposers separately, but decomposers are actually a subset of the larger consumer group.'>Decomposers<\/abbr><\/u><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/unctv.pbslearningmedia.org\/resource\/tdc02.sci.life.oate.decompose\/decomposers\/#.WXC4dIQrKCh\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/unctv.pbslearningmedia.org\/resource\/tdc02.sci.life.oate.decompose\/decomposers\/#.WXC4dIQrKCh<\/a><\/p>\n<p><u>Crash Course Kids: The Dirt on <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='Textbooks often describe consumers and decomposers separately, but decomposers are actually a subset of the larger consumer group.'>Decomposers<\/abbr><\/u><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uB61rfeeAsM\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uB61rfeeAsM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After showing students the two videos, lead a discussion using the <em>Questions to Ask Students<\/em> about the importance of decomposers.<\/p>\n<h3><em>Questions to Ask Students <\/em><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>What do decomposers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/eat-vs-consume\/\" target=\"_blank\">consume<\/a>?\n<ul>\n<li>What do decomposers do with the energy they get from consuming?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>What role do decomposers play in the ecosystem?\n<ul>\n<li>What might happen if there were no decomposers?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"su-box su-box-style-default\" id=\"\" style=\"border-color:#000cb4;border-radius:3px;\"><div class=\"su-box-title\" style=\"background-color:#1a3fe7;color:#FFFFFF;border-top-left-radius:1px;border-top-right-radius:1px\">Science Practices<\/div><div class=\"su-box-content su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\" style=\"border-bottom-left-radius:1px;border-bottom-right-radius:1px\"> <div class=\"su-note\"  style=\"border-color:#a5c3e0;border-radius:3px;-moz-border-radius:3px;-webkit-border-radius:3px;\"><div class=\"su-note-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\" style=\"background-color:#bfddfa;border-color:#ffffff;color:#333333;border-radius:3px;-moz-border-radius:3px;-webkit-border-radius:3px;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ngss.nsta.org\/Practices.aspx?id=6\" target=\"_blank\"><b> Constructing Explanations\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/a> When asking students to consider what might happen if there were no decomposers, prompt students to\u00a0predict\u00a0what other organisms may be affected and to provide evidence to support their predictions. <\/div><\/div> <\/div><\/div>\n<h3><em>Student Thinking<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>Students tend to think that decomposers and decomposition is gross; this experience is intended to help them understand that decomposers not only cause things to rot\u2014they play an important role in the ecosystem of recycling nutrients.<\/p>\n<h3><em>Implementation Tip<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>In the post-video discussion, it is important that students talk about how decomposers return nutrients from dead things and organic waste material back to the soil and air, creating a nutrient-rich environment for plants to grow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purpose To help students understand that decomposers recycle nutrients in an ecosystem. Description Students have seen images of decomposers leading to the rotting of various foods and helping to make compost.\u00a0 Begin by asking students for their thoughts about decomposers\u2019 role in the ecosystem.\u00a0 After discussing their ideas, watch the following videos. NOVA: <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='Textbooks often describe consumers and decomposers separately, but decomposers are actually a subset of the larger consumer group.'>Decomposers<\/abbr> https:\/\/unctv.pbslearningmedia.org\/resource\/tdc02.sci.life.oate.decompose\/decomposers\/#.WXC4dIQrKCh<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/getting-started-interdependence\/driving-question-pathway-the-mystery-at-sunrise-farm-pond\/the-mystery-at-sunrise-farm-pond-part-two\/student-experience-4-what-do-decomposers-do\/\"> Read the full article&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1600,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1608","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1608"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2683,"href":"https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1608\/revisions\/2683"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}