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- 3rd - 4th
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Students discover the basics of food chains and food webs through various ways such as whole class activities, journaling, oral discussions, and small group activities. Full Review »
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- 4th - 7th
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Students role play a predator/prey situation in order to explore the food chain and write a paper about it. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students complete a unit of lessons on ecology, habitats, and food chains. They conduct research, analyze data and record the information in a science journal, discuss key vocabulary, and design and create a shoebox habitat project. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 4th
Students explore basics of food chains and food webs, and predict what living things would be found in a food chain and where they would be placed in the chain. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students study food chains, producers, consumers, and decomposers. They play a food chain game and create food chain mobiles or posters. They take a nature hike around the school and observe various parts of a food chain. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students examine the concepts of food chains and food webs. They trace back common food chains found in nature, demonstrate the interdependence of organisms through a food webbing activity, and analyze the flow of the food chain of a cheeseburger. Full Review »
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- 2nd - 6th
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Students explore the interdependency of tropical forests. They explore the importance of conserving biodiversity and tropical food chains. Students create a tropical forest food chain and identify species that live in the Caribbean National Forest. Full Review »
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- 2nd
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Students examine how a food chain functions. They define what a food chain is, and act out a food chain with the students acting as different animals. Students then sing the song "I Know An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly," and create a food chain pyramid using paper cubes. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students determine if the food chain is possible. They rearrange the existing food chain to make a new food chain. They make their own food chain with a different set of 5 organisms and identify the various components of the food chain (producers, consumers, etc.) Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students investigate the concepts that are related to the balance of an ecosystem. They take part in activities that illustrate the delicate balance that exists between producers and consumers in an ecosystem. Students define the difference between a food chain and food web. Full Review »