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Food chains at sea

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Fifth graders interpret a table of data about food chains in the ocean. They create a food chain to represent the information on the table. Periwinkles eat seaweed, and crabs eat periwinkles - so who eats crabs? Extend the activity with a research activity about carnivore and herbivore dinosaurs.

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living things, non-living things, animals, food chains, data tables, graphs

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data tables, food chains, living and non living, science experiment, herbivore and carnivore, animals, science
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4th - 6th
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Science
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