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Interdependence and Adaptation

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Learners construct a food web to identify producer, consumer, herbivore, carnivore and predator. They complete an online activity collecting plants and animals and arranging them in the web. They describe the interdependence between plants and animals.

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Grade
5th - 6th
Subjects
Science
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45 mins
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