<p>8th grade Integrated Science</p><p>Title: Building Vocabulary</p><p>Description: This activity gives students practice using vocabulary words by matching them to definitions, pictures and examples. The students will create their own definitions, pictures and examples for other words.</p><p>Vocabulary words:</p><p>Photosynthesis, respiration, producer, consumer, decomposer, food web, food chain, predator, prey, mutualism, parasitism, competition, environment, capacity, organism</p><p>Procedures:</p><p>1. Use the internet as a resource to locate the definitions of the vocabulary words mentioned above. </p><p>2. Using Microsoft Word, create a chart similar to the examples given below that includes the word, a definition, an example of the word and a picture that can be used to represent the word. </p><p>3. When you are done, be sure to save your assignment to your file and then e-mail your assignment to Mr. Olsen. </p><p>Word Your Definition Complete Sentence Picture</p><p>An animal that A cougar is a Predator kills and eats predator of mule other animals. deer. Rubric:</p><p>3 2 1 0 Definition Clear, Too wordy or Unclear, too No attempt concise, to brief, less wordy or too made correct clear, correct brief, incorrect Picture Matches the Matches the Does not No attempt word, a word, not a match the made commonly commonly word. accepted accepted visual visual Complete Strong Connection Difficult to No attempt Sentence connection to can be made connect to made word definition to definition. definition.</p><p>(a rubric will be needed for each word set)</p>