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- Grade Range
- 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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- 2nd - 5th
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Students explore food chains using animal and plant images from the Pics4Learning site. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students survive within an ecosystem, an animal must be physically and behaviorally adapted to the conditions of its environment. 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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- 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 »
- Grade Range
- 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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- 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 - 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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- 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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- 4th
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Students investigate the concept of food chains and how they are part of the environment and focus upon energy transfer. They differentiate between a producer and consumer while charting the hierarchy of survival found in a food chain. Full Review »
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