Judy Anderton

Food Chains and Food Webs

Food Chains and Food Webs

Students will use the following web sites to research  food chains and food webs of various biomes. Following the state standards, the students will  show how  organisms interact with each other.

1.  Read the following as an introduction to food chains and food webs:

http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/articles/education/resources/curriculum/foodchains/background/

2.  Simple interactive food web

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/food/food_menu.html

3.  Choose a biome to research:

Tundra, Taiga, Temperate Grassland, Temperate Deciduous Forest, Savanna, Tropical Rain Forest, Desert,

Fresh Water, Pond or Ocean

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/biomes

Additional sites:

For Grassland, Tundra, Antartic, Marine and Rainforest http://www.gould.edu.au/foodwebs/kids_web.htm

Desert, Tropical Rainforest, Temperate Deciduous Forest, and Taiga

http://curriculum.calstatela.edu/courses/builders/lessons/less/biomes/introbiomes.html

For decomposers--look at the end

http://scienceisart.com/B_FoodChain/FoodChain.html

4.  Construct 3 food chains and one large food web incorporating the 3 food chains.

Use the draw icons on the microsoft word page.  Cut and paste illustratons from the above sites.

Directions for Power Point

Power Point Presentation will take place on Thursday, September 27, 2007

Students will work in pairs to make a power point showing examples of each vocabulary by relating it to different biomes.

Research Link

Web sites—predator, consumers, symbiosis

Niche--Predator/Prey/Competition

www.blueplanetbiomes.org/world_biomes.htm

Symbiosis and types

http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/S/Symbiosis.html

http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/course/ent591k/symbiosis.html

http://www.botany.uwc.ac.za/sci_ed/grade10/ecology/symbiosis/commen.htm

pictures click, copy, paste

http://www.fotosearch.com/photos-images/commensalism.html

All of consumers/ producers, etc.

http://www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/marssim/simhtml/info/whats-a-decomposer.html

Competition:  limiting factors

See blue planet.  Click on animal at the bottom of the page.

Read the limiting factor heading for ideas.

Parasites

http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx/HTML/Para_Health.htm