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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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- 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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- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students build food chain pyramid from teacher-created carton cubes, and discuss plants and animals and their places in the food chain. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students explore relationships among organisms involved in ocean food chains to investigate interdependence of the organisms. Full Review »
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- 9th - 10th
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Students are introduced to the marine aquatic food chain. In groups, they simulate the primary production by phytoplankton and the secondary consumption by fish. In groups, they role play the role of scientists in which they complete a survery of the population numbers of differnet organisms. 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 - 5th
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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. 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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- 6th - 10th
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Students explore the wetlands. They participate in numerous activities to explore food chains, food webs, and energy in the ecosystem. Students read stories, sing songs, visit specified websites, and participate in games to discover relationships among a community of living things. Full Review »

