Interdisciplinary activities

One subject in biology that I really like and find very interesting is ecology.  It is a key concept in understanding a balance in populations of producers and consumers.  I could integrate ecology in other subject areas that would enlarge and broaden my students' understanding.
An easy subject to incorporate into ecology is graphing.  You could show populations growing, shrinking, and how the consumers and producers populations change in relation to one another.  Below are two other subjects that can incorporate ecology.

Writing and acting out a skit
One example is http://www.creative-writing-ideas-and-activities.com/science-writing-prompts.html
There are multiple examples here, but I chose the activity about the ecosystem plays.  By students creating a short skit, students have an opportunity to show how producers, consumers, and decomposers all play a role. This could be an introductory lesson for a unit.  By using a given script, they could read it over and would have a basic understanding of the concepts.  It could also be done as a final activity, where the students would write their own script, using the knowledge they have gained from previous classes.
Writing a skit and acting it out could be used in other science concepts like writing and acting out the process of DNA replication, jobs of organelles in cells, molecular movement in solids, liquids, gases, etc.
I think a challenge might be for students who do not have the tools to write out a short skit. Another challenge might be for students to feel comfortable acting out skits in front of their classmates.

Plant and animal economics
Another example is http://www.proteacher.org/org/a/133444_Economics_Unit.html
This was a lesson activity done with sixth graders doing an economic lesson.  You could use this lesson, and relate it to plants and animals in nature, or even change the resources to specific plants, animals, water, shelter, etc. that animals would need to survive.  Instead of tables with ads, it could be areas for the animals to live, and how much water, food was located in each area.  This would show students competition of animals for resources, which is the same as humans competing and trading for resources throughout the world.

Overall, I think interdisciplinary teaching and learning is a great strategy to incorporate into your class.  If there are students that are not very motivated in science, but love to write, incorporating writing assignments could draw these students into the science content more.  It can also allow your students to participate in a different type of class than you would normally have.  A big challenge for a lot of schools is that they have pacing guides where thy are supposed to cover certain materials in a certain way. This limits your ability to try to incorporate this strategy.

I replied to Ashley Dever
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