Unit 7 Reflection

          In this unit, we learned about ecology and how organisms interact with their environments. The themes and essential understandings of this unit were interdependence, homeostasis, and cause and effect. Interdependence is the concept that all organisms are dependent on each other. The way they are all dependent are that they are all connected through food chains and food webs. They all keep the environment in balance which is the key to a healthy ecosystem. Homeostasis is the concept that all organisms want to be stable. When populations of organisms are stable in an ecosystem, the food webs also stay stable, which leads to the ecosystem being healthy and balanced.


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          There are many things that I want to learn about that wasn't covered in this unit. For example, I want to learn more about the energy transfer between organisms in food webs and food pyramids. Also, I want to learn more about what we can do to save our dying ecosystems and how to balance the needs of humans and environments. My learning experience on working on the Conservation Biologist Project was good. I learned how to balance the workload between my group members and the Team Contract helped us do that very well. To me, I felt that the project was a big workload, but since we got a lot of time in class, it helped me manage my time better for other homework for other classes that I would have to do at home. What went well was the collaboration and cooperation of my teammates. Also that we finished the project on time. Nothing went wrong or not well at all, it was a very successful project. The collaboration between my group mates was very good and we all carried equal weight to make this project.


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          In class, I took this survey about what my dominant way method of conflict management is. According to that survey, I was assertive and aggressive, which meant that I was looking for ways for everyone to "win" and also ways for me to "win." My dominant method of conflict management was that I was assertive. Ways to be more assertive is to continue what I have been doing, which is being assertive.