What is an ecosystem?

We know that human activities often have a negative impact on ecosystems.

But what is an ecosystem?

This is the question that our 5th grade students asked themselves this morning in SVT class.

To answer it, they went to see for themselves, directly on the ground!

They observed living beings and the environmental conditions of a very particular ecosystem, the EFIP garden!

After their observations, the students concluded that an ecosystem is defined by the parameters of the environment (sunshine, temperature, humidity, etc.) and by the living beings that populate it.