Food web Lesson Plans

Students explore organisms that are part of interconnected food webs.  In this food web activity, students choose an animal and research what the animal eats.  Students begin with the food chain and branch out into the interconnected web following the organism chosen.

Research the types of ecosystems found in Louisiana. Young ecologists will create an informational brochure to promote public awareness on preserving natural habitat. They will also create PowerPoint presentations about the food chain and food web they made.

Fourth graders investigate food chains. In this living environment lesson, 4th graders begin to understand the interdependence of organisms. Students describe the connections organisms have to the ecosystem. Students research online, draw food webs, write songs, and compare and contrast animals and their roles in their habitats.

Sixth graders explore biology by completing a hunter and prey activity. In this food web lesson plan, 6th graders research 5 assigned forest animals on the Internet and determine their eating habits. Students create food webs for each of their animals and share them with each other on educational social networking websites.

Fifth graders examine the circle of life. In this food webs and food chains lesson, 5th graders examine the interdependence of organisms in ecosystems as they consider how energy flows through the web or chain. Students create a food web of an ecosystem.

Sixth graders study the food web in a bay. In this food web lesson, 6th graders investigate the SAV- submerged aquatic vegetation of a bay including their predators, and how the organisms eat, have proper living space and water. They complete research guides using the assigned web sites before presenting what they learned to the class in a skit or oral presentation.

Students consider the interdependency of life in a temperate forest by studying selected organisms from an Asian temperate forest and creating a food web.

Students create food webs for two different ocean communities. They are given cards showing organisms from the surface of the ocean. They arrange them in order of who eats whom. After this class activity, students create a food web for the hydrothermal vent community they have studied.

Students identify producers and consumers, including scavengers and decomposers, and discuss role each plays in food web. They then make diagram of possible food chain that might include skull pictured on Montana's quarter, and participate in scavenger hunt.

Students investigate the food webs in the Barnegat Bay. In this organisms activity, students use a graphic organizer to illustrate the types of consumers in the bay. Students use reference books to continue to research the animals found in the Barnegat Bay.