Lesson Overview
Cricket, the main character in Smack Dab in the Middle of Maybe, moves into a treehouse in the woods to find her mother’s “bird room” before her mother returns. The book can be used to teach students about ecosystems as they learn about Cricket’s new home in a deciduous forest.
Essential Question
What is the relationship between living things in an ecosystem?
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Computers for student use or computer and projector for group research
Smack Dab in the Middle of Maybe by Jo Watson Hackl
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- Ecology: Interactions of Living Systems and the Environment
- 7.EC.5 The student will demonstrate an understanding of how organisms interact with and respond to the biotic and abiotic components of their environments.
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