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- 4th
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Students generalize that all animals, including people, depend on plants as a food source. After describing and constructing a food chain. students tell how pesticides enter the food chain. Full Review »
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- 2nd - 6th
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Students, in groups, create a model of food chains to create a food web. Full Review »
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- 2nd
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Students read the book "What is a Food Chain?" and describe how a food chain works. They complete a computer activity that asks them to put animals in the proper order and make a paper chain to represent a food chain. Full Review »
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- 1st - 3rd
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Students explore the connections between healthy food choices to assist the body in the production for energy for living. The variety of plants and animals that make up a food chain are examined and applied to the concept of balance in this lesson. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students explore the food chain and the ways that animals depend on each other and on plants for food. They create a paper chain with different colors relating to carnivores and herbivores. The chains are linked to the sun to create a food chain canopy. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students use poetry to present information related to food chains. While listening to the poem, they discover the interdependence of living organisms. They write their own poem showing their comprehension of the food chain concept and shares it with the class. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students investigate the food chain. They brainstorm questions about the human food chain and explain what would happen to living things in the food chain if organisms or resources were removed. They role-play situations in which the food chain is broken Full Review »
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- 3rd - 4th
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Students discuss ecosystems, eliciting their current knowledge of an ecosystem. Students receive an Ecosystems document and look at the picture. Students brainstorm connection between the cover picture and ecosystems. The indicated document is available free of charge, ordering information is included on the lesson. Students read and discuss the document then create a food chain and then a food web. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten
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Students research information about food chains to find pictures of animals in a food chain. Using their pictures, students create a pictorial report of their food chain using Kid Pix and present their movie to their class. Full Review »
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- 2nd - 3rd
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Students role-play various organisms from a food chain to illustrate how a food chain works. In relay style, they try to fill their cups (stomachs) and, in turn, fill a larger organism's larger cup (stomach). Full Review »

