The Nature of Teaching: Unit 5, Ashes to Ashes: We All Grow Up

This 23-page PDF is teaching Unit 5 in the Nature of Teaching series. Two lessons and classroom activities for teachers of students kindergarten through grade five describe how an ecosystem is constantly changing and what causes the changes. After finishing the lessons, students will be able to list the four major stages of succession; understand the importance and benefits of natural fire in nature; and recognize that animals use different successional stages of an ecosystem, depending on what they need to survive.