Introduction
Hello students!
Today we will be learning all about the Food web and what it is.
By the end of this quest, you will know:
-The different participants in an ecosystem
-Which animal eats what
-What the food chain actually is
Let's get to learning!
Task
I will break my class up into 6 groups; producers, consumers, herbivores, carnivores, omnivores and decomposers. They will go around to each table and pick a cut out of a certain participant of the ecosystem, color it and go to the next table and do the same until finished. When they are done, there will be a big piece of construction paper and they will glue they're participants on the paper in the order that the food web describes.
Producers- there will be cut outs of different plants and vegetables and the students will choose one & color it.
Consumers- There will be cut outs of animals such as lions and squirrels; or other things that do not produce their own food.
Herbivores-Examples of cut outs would be, rabbits and deer.
Omnivores- Chickens, pigs and bears will be a couple of animal cut outs for the students to color.
Decomposers- worms, bacteria and fungus will be some things students can choose from.
Process
Step 1- Students will be divided up into 6 groups (producers, consumers, carnivores, herbivores, omnivores, and decomposers).
Step2- Students will go to their first assigned table and pick an animal/thing from their group and color it.
Step 3- Students will switch tables and do the same thing until finishing all tables.
Step4- Students will go over to a big piece of construction paper and glue their cut outs in order from the food web onto the paper.
Step 5- We will come together as a class and discuss why it's in the specific order that it's in.
Step 6- We will hang up the construction paper(s) in the classroom on the back wall!
Evaluation
| Teacher Name: Ms. Shows | ||||
| Student Name: ________________________________________ | ||||
| CATEGORY | 1 | 3 | 5 | |
| Coloring Ability/Accuracy | Student did an excellent job of coloring the print out without being sloppy and took their time. | Student colored in picture but with minimal effort. | Student didn't possess any creativity or effort in coloring the picture cut out. | |
| Working together & Sharing | Student was sharing the crayons/markers with other students and shared the room on table. | Student was working together well with the other students but didn't want to share. | Student didn't work well with classmates and was in a rush to get everything done without being patient. | |
| Creativity! | The poster demonstartes very little effort and creativity. | The poster demonstartes minimal effort and creativity. | The poster demontrates much effort and creativity. | |
| Presentation | Student can accurately convey all the information presented in the poster and answer all questions related to facts in the poster. | Student can accurately convey most of the information presented in the poster and answer most questions related to facts in the poster. | Student can accurately convey minimal/no information presented in the poster and answer less than half of the questions related to facts in the poster. | |
Conclusion
Congrats students! You have completed the journey in learning about the food web. If you ever forget the roles played by the different participants in the ecosystem, you can just look at the wall in the back of your classroom and see which animal eats what and be reminded of why it's like that!
:)