Role of ladybugs in an ecosystem<\/h4>\n
Purpose:<\/strong> After becoming more familiar with their schoolyard and ladybug <\/span> [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_line_height=”1.6em” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n Discuss with students areas of the school grounds where they have found ladybugs (refer to your School Grounds Map and record sheets from October) as well as the variety of microhabitats found on your school campus (refer to the Media Guide<\/a> for more information regarding microhabitats). What do these areas have in common, or what makes them different from other areas where ladybugs have not been found? Give students time to consider each microhabitat, possible pesticide use, types and amounts of vegetation, and other habitat features<\/span> of these school ground areas. Have students consider how the entire school campus is part of an ecosystem made up of living and non-living factors, whereas habitat features are specific to the school ground area. Ask students to discuss with a partner if these features also<\/span> aid in ladybug survival. Share thoughts with the whole group.<\/span><\/p>\n Building on students\u2019 existing knowledge of ecosystems, engage the class in a food web activity to determine ladybugs\u2019 role in the ecosystem as either a <\/span>producer, consumer,<\/b> or <\/span>decomposer <\/b>(see Narrative below)<\/span>.<\/b> After determining that a ladybug is a consumer, together as a class explore ladybugs as <\/span>predators <\/b>and <\/span>prey<\/b> using resources identified in the Media Guide<\/a>. As a class, discuss what ladybugs eat and what eats a ladybug (see Narrative below) as well as what other aspects of the ecosystem a ladybug needs for survival (e.g., water, shelter).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Take the students to an area of your school grounds where ladybugs have been found previously. The intent of this activity is not to search for new ladybugs. Instead, the class should focus on observing this spot where they previously searched and found ladybugs to make connections with the class discussion about habitat features and ladybugs\u2019 needs for survival. After recording any findings, ask students to think about what was discussed in class as they think about the ladybugs as survivors and their role in an ecosystem.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” ul_text_color=”#ffffff” background_color=”#338BC8″ custom_margin=”10px|10px|10px|10px|true|true” custom_padding=”10px|10px|10px|10px|true|true” border_radii=”on|5px|5px|5px|5px” border_color_all=”#338BC8″ global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Not finding ladybugs?<\/b> See the list below for some ideas on how to handle student disappointment when not finding ladybugs. Refer to the Science Content support this month for more Outdoor Search Tips. In addition, review the locations where you have been searching and consider that ladybugs may be moving indoors or hiding in different locations outside (refer to December for more information about ladybugs survival practice of overwintering).\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Tips for handling student disappointment:<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_button button_url=”@ET-DC@eyJkeW5hbWljIjp0cnVlLCJjb250ZW50IjoicG9zdF9saW5rX3VybF9wYWdlIiwic2V0dGluZ3MiOnsicG9zdF9pZCI6IjI5OCJ9fQ==@” button_text=”Previous: 2: October” button_alignment=”left” _builder_version=”4.16″ _dynamic_attributes=”button_url” _module_preset=”default” custom_button=”on” button_text_size=”14px” button_border_width=”0px” button_icon=”#||divi||400″ button_icon_placement=”left” button_on_hover=”off” custom_padding=”|20px|||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_button][et_pb_button 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What might explain those changes?<\/i><\/b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n How can we improve habitat for ladybugs in our schoolyard?<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n Participatory science relies on the data collected by everyday people, and your participation is key! Remember to collect, photograph, and upload ladybug data as often as possible with your class. Refer to the supports provided in previous months for tips on photographing and recording your data.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Students can use the data gathered from the School Grounds Map and Data Recording Sheets to help them consider the first two bulleted questions above. As students review the data collected, they can begin to discern which species of ladybugs is most prevalent on your school grounds and in which locations those species can be found. Reviewing the data in this way will help students focus on the features of the school grounds that make the space habitable\/uninhabitable for native ladybugs. <\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Objectives” module_id=”narrative” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_enable_color=”off” custom_padding=”35px|||||” border_width_top=”8px” border_color_top=”#cc232f” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_4,3_4″ use_custom_gutter=”on” gutter_width=”1″ make_equal=”on” admin_label=”Module Heading with Icon” _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”||1px|||” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_css_main_element=”width: 15%!important;” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/horizon-research.com\/sbpscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-13-100609.png” title_text=”Screenshot 2025-03-13 100609″ _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”EB Garamond||||||||” header_text_align=”left” header_text_color=”#454545″ header_font_size=”42px” header_line_height=”2.2em” header_3_font=”|700|||||||” header_3_text_color=”#454545″ header_3_font_size=”26px” header_line_height_tablet=”1.2em” header_line_height_phone=”1.2em” header_line_height_last_edited=”on|tablet” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” min_height=”429.5px” custom_margin=”16px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Ms. Jones is getting ready to introduce the concept of a food web to her class and wants to incorporate what students have been learning about ladybugs. Typically, she uses an activity that focuses on feeding relationships and the roles of plants, grasshoppers, mice, and owls in an ecosystem. However, knowing that students are working with the Ladybugs at School Project throughout the year, she decides to adjust the activity to focus on ladybugs as consumers, with aphids as their prey and birds as their predators. The Ladybugs at School project\u00a0 provides a context for all students in her class to make meaning of interdependence concepts. Ms. Jones directs students to consider the School Grounds Map they have posted in the classroom and specifically shares that the areas they have been exploring as a class to look for ladybugs are also microhabitats. She asks students to consider what microhabitats they have present on their school grounds, as well as what organisms live in or near these school grounds microhabitats. Ms. Jones also shares photographs that the class has taken to help students remember what they have observed over the past few months. Shifting the discussion to more directly relate to the concepts of food webs, Ms. Jones displays pictures of plants that they have found, and asks how the plants get their food. Building on an earlier conversation about plants\u2019 needs, the class understands that plants produce their own food. Ms. Jones labels these organisms \u201cproducers.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Ms. Jones knows that ladybugs mainly eat aphids and other soft-bodied insects, but she realizes that many students think plants are ladybugs\u2019 primary food source because that is where they are found. (The squash ladybug <\/span>does<\/i><\/b> eat plants; Ms. Jones will later clarify this point with students, but for now she plans to focus on the food sources of the species the class has found most frequently: Asian multicolored and 7-spotted ladybugs). She starts by showing photos that the class has taken of other insects, like aphids and other insect larvae, that mainly eat plants. She has not been able to capture a photo of a ladybug eating an aphid but uses photos sourced online to show students how both larvae and adult ladybugs prey on aphids. Similarly, students have not seen a bird preying on a ladybug, but Ms. Jones makes students aware of that relationship. The class uses these photographs to construct a food chain, and she labels the ladybugs \u201cconsumers.\u201d In later lessons, Ms. Jones plans to continue to build out this food chain as a food web, incorporating decomposers. The next time students go outdoors, they will look for evidence of feeding relationships (e.g., bite marks in leaves, aphid presence in plants) in their schoolyard ecosystem and consider adding labels to their School Grounds Map. <\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Objectives” module_id=”findlb” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_enable_color=”off” custom_padding=”35px|||||” border_width_top=”8px” border_color_top=”#cc232f” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_4,3_4″ use_custom_gutter=”on” gutter_width=”1″ make_equal=”on” admin_label=”Module Heading with Icon” _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”||1px|||” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_css_main_element=”width: 10%!important;” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/horizon-research.com\/tl4cs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Asset-16.png” title_text=”Asset 16″ show_bottom_space=”off” align=”center” _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”EB Garamond||||||||” header_text_align=”left” header_text_color=”#454545″ header_font_size=”42px” header_line_height=”2.2em” header_3_font=”|700|||||||” header_3_text_color=”#454545″ header_3_font_size=”26px” header_line_height_tablet=”1.2em” header_line_height_phone=”1.2em” header_line_height_last_edited=”on|tablet” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Prior to taking students outside to search for evidence of ladybugs as consumers and of their survival in an ecosystem, the following guidance might be helpful to consider:\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Objectives” module_id=”orgroles” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_enable_color=”off” custom_padding=”35px|||||” border_width_top=”8px” border_color_top=”#cc232f” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_4,3_4″ use_custom_gutter=”on” gutter_width=”1″ make_equal=”on” admin_label=”Module Heading with Icon” _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”||1px|||” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_css_main_element=”width: 10%!important;” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/horizon-research.com\/tl4cs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Asset-29.png” title_text=”Asset 29″ show_bottom_space=”off” align=”center” _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”EB Garamond||||||||” header_text_align=”left” header_text_color=”#454545″ header_font_size=”42px” header_line_height=”2.2em” header_3_font=”|700|||||||” header_3_text_color=”#454545″ header_3_font_size=”26px” header_line_height_tablet=”1.2em” header_line_height_phone=”1.2em” header_line_height_last_edited=”on|tablet” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n The Media Guide<\/a>\u200b includes books and video resources that help students understand the various roles organisms have in an ecosystem. Help students build their knowledge of food web related vocabulary words by referring to the \u201cOrganism Roles\u201d section.<\/span><\/p>\n The Media Guide<\/a>\u200b also contains resources for deepening student understanding of various ecosystems. As students begin to consider habitats where ladybugs are most likely to be found compared to the data they have collected thus far, knowing more about the various ecosystems can support student sense-making.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Objectives” module_id=”exitticket” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_enable_color=”off” custom_padding=”35px|||||” border_width_top=”8px” border_color_top=”#cc232f” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_4,3_4″ use_custom_gutter=”on” gutter_width=”1″ make_equal=”on” admin_label=”Module Heading with Icon” _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”||1px|||” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_css_main_element=”width: 10%!important;” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/horizon-research.com\/sbpscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-13-100850.png” title_text=”Screenshot 2025-03-13 100850″ show_bottom_space=”off” align=”center” _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” width=”130%” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”EB Garamond||||||||” header_text_align=”left” header_text_color=”#454545″ header_font_size=”42px” header_line_height=”2.2em” header_3_font=”|700|||||||” header_3_text_color=”#454545″ header_3_font_size=”26px” custom_margin=”|||47px||” header_line_height_tablet=”1.2em” header_line_height_phone=”1.2em” header_line_height_last_edited=”on|tablet” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n The following prompts offer ideas for assessing students\u2019 understanding, including key vocabulary. Use one or both prompts that will best assess the focus of your work with students. <\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” min_height=”122.8px” custom_padding=”||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Prompt 1:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n Based on what you know about ladybugs, where in your schoolyard or in which microhabitat do you predict you are most likely to find them? Use words, drawings, and\/or diagrams to explain your thinking.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Teacher note: Potential ideas to look for in student responses:\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Prompt 2:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n Based on what you\u2019ve learned about food webs, how would you describe the ladybug\u2019s role in one? 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identification in previous months, students will\u00a0begin to explore the role of ladybugs in an ecosystem. They will examine a ladybug\u2019s needs for survival, connect these needs with features in their schoolyards, and classify the role of ladybugs and other organisms in ecosystems.<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/horizon-research.com\/tl4cs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Asset-27.png\")
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Students will analyze and interpret data from their School Grounds Map and Data Recording Sheets to discuss the types of microhabitats where ladybugs have or have not been found on school grounds to determine what features of these spaces aid in ladybug survival (See In a Nutshell).<\/em><\/p>\n
Students will determine a ladybug\u2019s role in an ecosystem by creating a model food web (See In a Nutshell & Narrative).<\/em><\/p>\n
Students will evaluate information regarding a ladybug\u2019s role in an ecosystem to communicate where they may or may not find ladybugs on school grounds (See In a Nutshell, Narrative, & Assessment).<\/em><\/p>\nResources + Supports<\/h4>\n
Reviewing Data<\/h3>\n
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Ms. Jones’ Class Considers the Ladybug’s Food Chain<\/h3>\n
Outdoor Search Tips<\/h3>\n
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Ecosystem Resources<\/h3>\n
Exit Ticket Prompts<\/h3>\n
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Conservation Efforts<\/h3>\n
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