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- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students discuss producers, herbivores, omnivores, carnivores, and decomposers and analyze the difference between food chains and food webs. They participate in a food web yarn game, examining what can effect the breakdown of the web. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students gather evidence to explain that organisms in an ecosystem are tied together by their need for energy. They see that decomposers break down dead organisms and wastes and release the nutrients they contain into the soil, Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students distinguish between acquatic and terrestrial organisms. They label animals as producers, consumers, and/or decomposers. Full Review »
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- 7th - 12th
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Students identify the roles that producers, consumers and decomposers play in various ecosystems. They sort different organisms according to the roles they play. Full Review »
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- 6th
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Students investigate the decomposing ability of microorganisms by constructing a decomposition chamber and observing/recording the changes that take place in one month. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students examine decomposers and their role in food chains. They create two decomposing chambers to observe soil decompostion in progress. They also discover how important decomposers are to the creation of soil. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st
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Students identify objects in the classroom that decompose over time. They draw a picture of what objects are left. They practice using their critical thinking skills as well. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students describe the role of decomposer organisms in nutrient recycling. They realize the importnace in maintaing the flow of energy through an ecosystem. They describe the physical conditions that are favorable or unfavorable to microbial decomposers. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students explore the process of decomposition and draw conclusions about the important role decomposers play in the flow of energy. They complete diagrams of the energy flow by adding decomposers and explain how decomposers get their energy. Students explain why decomposers are important to other living things. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 1st
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Students decompose a single digit number in order to know that numbers represent values. They list various ways to make a number using double sided red/white disks. They explain the various combinations they came up with while decomposing the number given to them. Full Review »