Biology
STAAR™ Achievement Series for Science © 2013 Region 4 Education Service Center
Notes
Read and select facilitation questions as appropriate to meet your students’ needs.
Phase Instructional Grouping Materials
Engage
Small groups
- Engage: Organism cards
- Chart paper
- Marker
- Scissors
Explore
Small groups
- Explore: Food Chains and Energy
Pyramids
- Explore: Feeding Relationships Table
Explore: Energy Arrows
Explain
Individual - Explain Part 2: Ecological Pyramids
Elaborate
Small groups
- Food chains created during Explore using
organism cards
- Elaborate: Carbon Cycle
- Explore: Energy Arrows
- Scissors
Evaluate
Individual - Evaluate: The Flow of Matter and Energy
