Description
Your students will love learning about food webs and food chains with these engaging activities. This comprehensive 5E packet on food webs and food chains is specially designed to align with the NGSS Middle School MS-LS2-3 standard “develop a model to describe the cycling of matter and flow of energy among living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem”.
Easy to follow and fun to use and teach with. You don’t have to add anything.
❤️ “My students loved using these as review stations”! Kassandra P.
❤️ “Great work as always. It was very enjoyable when I used it in my classroom”. Ersin Bakioglu
Topics Covered
- Producers
- Consumers
- Primary Consumers
- Secondary Consumers
- Tertiary Consumers
- Woodland Food Chain
- Marine Food Chain
- Scavengers
- Decomposers
- Food Webs
- Energy Pyramid
Here’s what’s included in this packet:
- Engagement activity including an editable I CAN objective statement
- Explore – science station lab (see below)
- Explain – fully editable powerpoint
- Elaborate -editable student choice board
- Evaluate – assessment
- Notes
Science Stations
- Watch It – students watch a short video explaining the importance of detritus or the brown food chain and answer questions based on the video.
- Identify It – students are shown a food web and they identify the producers, consumers and decomposers.
- Illustrate It – here the students choose an ecosystem, identify a food chain from it and illustrate it.
- Explain It – students are shown how energy is lost at each level in a food chain. They answer questions about the loss of energy and explain their reasoning.
- Label It – At this station students look at how carbon is recycled in an ecosystem. They will label a diagram showing the stages (2 versions supplied).
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