Ecosystems: Imaginary Food Web
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HW: Work on your Ecosystem Vocabulary Video Projects.
CW: Imaginary Food Web MiniPoster. Complete your Imaginary Food Web with 3 Producers, 3 Primary Consumers, 2 Secondary Consumers, and 1 Tertiary Consumers from your imagination for a specific environment. Color, label and add arrows to complete your food web. Use the entire sheet of paper. (Note: You don’t have to create a landscape, one drawing of each organism is sufficient.) Quality matters.
DN: What are 3 primary consumers that live in the forest?
Reminders: Group Ecosystem Vocabulary Video Projects due date is this TUESDAY (10/8). Late group projects will not be accepted, group members will have to turn in separate individual project videos.
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Lesson Outline
5min> Students complete the Do Now by answering the question in their notebook.
5min Teacher outlines instructions for Imaginary Food Web Poster and shows examples. Students are creating an imaginary food web that fits a theme of their choice (e.g. Halloween, Dessert, Baseball, etc.) However ‘Fire’ theme is banned.
15min Students draw (with pencil) 3 Producers, 3 Primary Consumers, 2 Secondary Consumers, and 1 Tertiary Consumer that are imaginary and go with their theme.
15min Students finish by adding color, arrows, labels, title, and names to their imaginary food web.
5min Collect materials. Clean up. Wrap up.