Trace the flow of energy from the Sun as it is transferred along the food chain through the producers to the consumers.
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Producer Consumer Reading |
Students will learn about energy transfer between organisms, and understand the different roles that organisms can hold in a food web. They will use cards to create food webs as groups, then combine all their food webs into one large ecosystem.
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Gr. 4 Lesson 1-Food Chain Gang | Students will be able to explain the purpose and path of a food chain is, describe a simple Everglades food chain and trace the flow of energy from the sun as it is transferred. Students will also be able to explain the impacts of a loss of a species in a food chain. |
Food Chain Repair | In this STEM lesson, students will build a food chain with Florida organisms and keep the energy "point level" within a desired range. There will then be some scenarios that will be placed on the food chain and student engineers will try to keep their food chain in tact. |
Dramatic Food Chains | This fun lesson gives students the chance to "act out" food chains. By really putting themselves into food chains, students will better understand the transfer of energy through the food chain, as well as understand that the sun is the primary source of energy in a food chain. This lesson ends with students constructing their own food chains, and writing an explanatory paragraph to explain the flow of energy through the food chain they constructed. |
Predator and Prey | In this lesson the students will learn about a predator/prey relationship. They will learn about the role that plants and animals play in their ecosystem and what each role is called. The students will also learn about the limiting factors each ecosystem possesses that prevent any species population from becoming too large. |
Food Webs | In this activity about food webs, students learn that producers make all of the molecules they need from simple substances and energy from the sun, other living things depend on producers for food, and living things that must eat other organisms as food are known as consumers. Food webs show all of the various interactions among producers and consumers in an ecosystem. Following an introduction to the content, students are divided into six groups and given a set of six cards, each of which represents a producer or consumer, unique to one of six different ecosystems. From the set of cards, students identify the producers and consumers, discuss who might eat whom, and construct an illustration of the possible food web configurations. |
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Plant Parts You Eat | In this food science activity, learners observe different plant-originated foods. This activity will help learners understand that consumers (including humans) rely on producers, specifically plants and plant parts, for food. This lesson guide includes background information and variation ideas. |
The Food Connection-SeaWorld Classroom Activity | In this activity, students make connections among penguins and other antarctic animals. They will trace the flow of energy in food chains and webs. |
Weave a Food Web-SeaWorld Classroom Activity | In this activity, the students will discover the food energy relationship within a food web in a coral reef habitat. |
Web Connection-SeaWorld Classroom Activity | In this activity, the students will learn how animals are interconnected with the arctic ecosystem and how humans impact these interrelationships. |