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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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- 4th - 7th
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Students role play a predator/prey situation in order to explore the food chain and write a paper about it. Full Review »
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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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- 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 use poetry to present information related to food chains. While listening to the poem, they discover the interdependence of living organisms. They write their own poem showing their comprehension of the food chain concept and shares it with the class. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students investigate the food chain. They brainstorm questions about the human food chain and explain what would happen to living things in the food chain if organisms or resources were removed. They role-play situations in which the food chain is broken 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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- 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 »
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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 »

