Food Chain Checkers

Students model the food chain. For this lesson, students play a game resembling checkers that simulates the food chain within the ocean. Students make changes to the game to better represent how the food chain operates.

Concepts

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food chains, whales

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Additional Tags

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checkers, copepod, diatom, food chain, herring, population activity, whale

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Resource Details

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Grade

5th - 9th

Subjects

Science

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Resource Type

Lesson Plans

Audience

For Teacher Use

Duration

2 hrs

Instructional Strategies

Research

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Usage Permissions

Creative Commons

BY-NC-SA: 3.0