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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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- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students research animals of Antarctica and the Antarctic food chain. They draw pictures of animals and attach them to a wall collage. They research the animals' diet and create a food web illustrating krill's importance to the Antarctic. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students are introduced to the idea that energy is passed from one organism to the next in a food chain. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten
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Students to the book, Life in a Pond, then discuss the food chain and create a food chain mobile. On one strip of paper students draw and label a pond plant, on another a tadpole, on another a fish and on the last a person. Full Review »
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- 1st
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Students explore how most living things, big and small, need food for survival. Full Review »
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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 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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- 1st - 5th
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Students memorize a poem using various reading strategies to reinforce the concept of the food chain and the terminology associated with it. 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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- 6th - 8th
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Students recreate the skeleton of a small mammal from an owl pellet to understand that energy is passed from one organism to the next in a food chain. Prior to the experiment, students research owls. After recreating the skeleton, students construct a food web for the ecosystem. Full Review »

