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Web of Life Game ActivityWeb of Life Game Activity
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American Museum of Natural History
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6th - 12th
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Web of Life Game

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Get caught in a web of learning. Classmates play a game to build a web to model the interaction of species that live in a specific ecosystem. They each assume the role of one species and work together, passing a ball of twine to indicate the dependency and interactions between the species.

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food webs, ecosystems, animal species

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science

Instructional Ideas

  • Have pupils create a list of species from a local ecosystem to use in the activity

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  • Prepare materials prior to the lesson
  • Builds on an understanding of species interactions
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