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- 1st
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Students discuss food chains and how living things depend upon one another for survival. They participate in building a living food chain from the smallest animal to the largest. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students explore what happens if some part of a food chain is missing and what effect that has on the environment. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 8th
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Students identify the cyclical nature of food chains and discuss common food chain relationships in a variety of ecosystems. They work in small groups to research a specific food chain and make a display of their findings using paper plates. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students collect and analyze data about food chains. They conduct Internet research about the habitat of a selected organism, write a narrative, and create a computer slideshow using Kid Pix computer software that illustrates the food chain their organism is a part of. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 4th
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Students discover the difference between omnivores, carnivores and herbivores. In groups, they develop a food chain for a specific animal and research where they live and how they adapt to their environment. To end the lesson, they build their own habitat. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students study about food chains. With the assistance of a local biologist, Students hike the school trail system. They explore ecosystem and collect data by charting the organisms found and identifying the energy source. They create a graphic organizer for a local food chain. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students investigate food chains. They review cycles and discuss ecosystems. They select an environment and create a food chain in small groups. They write their food chain and label it for the class to evaluate. They create food webs of the foods they have eaten. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students study food chains and food webs. They assimilate the concept of prey-predator relationship and how they establish a food chain with a producer, a consumer and a decomposer. They choose a food that they had for breakfast and develop a food chain for that item. Full Review »
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- 7th - 10th
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Students discuss the characteristics of producers, consumers and decomposers. Using a flow chart, they construct a food chain to visually show how organisms with different energy sources depend upon one another. Students explore a model of a food web and discuss characteristics of each consumer. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students engage in a lesson that is about the concept of the marine food chain. They conduct research using a variety of resources. The layers of the ecosystem is described by the students and a graphic organizer can be created in order to help organize information. Full Review »
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