Ecosystem Partners

Standard Rating Guide
  • References: the lesson only references the standard
  • Part: the lesson teaches part of the lesson
  • Assesses: the lesson teaches the standard thoroughly so that the standard can be assessed

Activity Description

Abstract: 1. Students will define and categorize relationships in which living things depend on one another for food, shelter and reproduction. 2. Students will identify Alaska examples of three symbiotic relationships: mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism.

Curriculum Book: Alaska's Ecology
Page number: 98

Age Groups

4th grade - 12th Grade

Educational Standards

   Science C-2   Part
   Science C-1   References
   Science C-3   Part

Educational Topics

   Habitat
   Interdependence
   Predator/Prey and Symbiotic Relationships