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- Grade Range
- 7th - 8th
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Students describe typical marine food webs, and explain why food is generally scarce in the deep-ocean environment. They discuss reasons that seamounts may support a higher density of biological organisms than would appear to be possible. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students engage in this introduction to an integrated marine science unit which culminates in an early fall trip to Hammocks Beach State Park. The unit is designed to hook students into science and provide joyful learning across the curriculum. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students study food webs and food chains by listening to a book, watching video clips and completing computer work. They create a food web online. Full Review »
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- 5th - 6th
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Students create concept maps and classify various food items as either producers or consumers in a food web. In small groups, the research the ingredients found in various food items noting the autotrophic content. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 8th
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Students create posters that show how a shark is a major predator in kelp forests and coral reefs after studying the food webs for these ecosystems. They determine that fish are important animals in the ocean's web of life. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 8th
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Students construct a food web representative of the Gulf of California. They use pictures to depict all of the organisms in the appropriate level of the web (producer, primary consumer, etc.) Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th
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Students investigate a salt marsh. Then using a teacher provided information sheet, they take notes of information to be used to create a graphic organizer of a food web. The web is written on the worksheet and the students answer questions that are provided. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 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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- 5th
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Students describe the difference between food webs and food chains. After watching a short video, they explain the roles of decomposers, producers and consumers and diagram the flow of energy through a food web. They calculate the amount of energy as it flows from organism to organism. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th
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Students engage in a lesson that is about the concept of the marine food chain. They conduct research using a variety of resources. The layers of the ecosystem is described by the students and a graphic organizer can be created in order to help organize information. Full Review »

