Food Web Game

1. Food Web Game Welcome to the Food Web Game. The following slides are NOT a slide show presentation. They are spinners for the Food Web Game and signs for the stations needed for the game. Game created by: Karen Earp 4/5 LAD teacher Clarksburg Elementary School

2. Directions • 1. Prepare for game by placing spinners (slides 3-25) in a large cleared space like the gym, AP room, or outside. Place a paperclip at each station to use for the spinner. Use the student page as a “map” for placement to make the stations easier to locate. Identify each station with the signs (slides 26-48). • 2. Each pair of students should have a student sheet. They should have crayons or color pencils. Students will choose one color to complete round one of the game. Each pair will begin at the sun station and spinner to determine which plant received the energy. The students should draw an arrow from the sun to the plant on which the spinner landed. • 3. The student pair will then proceed to the plant station and spin the spinner to determine where the energy goes next. At each station the students should draw an arrow to show the flow of energy through the ecosystem. When the students reach the end of a food chain (recycled through decay). They should return to the sun station and begin again with a new color to show round two. Do not draw an arrow back to the sun. • 4. At the end of several rounds of play the students should have clear food chains (color coded) that form a food web. • Note: There tends to be a bottleneck at the sun station, especially to start the game since everyone needs to begin there. It may expedite the game to have a few spinners for the sun station.

3. Fruit Nuts Sun's Energy Leaves Herbs

4. porcupine mouse bear bird Nuts squirrel raccoon deer

5. deer squirrel earthworm turtle Leaves porcupine

6. rabbit deer earthworm skunk Herbs porcupine squirrel mouse

7. bear turtle turtle coyote Fruit fox rabbit bird mouse

8. skunk raccoon Turtle bear coyote

9. snake turtle bird frog Earthworm raccoon

10. skunk snake hawk fox Mouse raccoon bobcat owl coyote

11. coyote skunk Snake fox hawk

12. owl fox Squirrel bobcat

13. owl fox Skunk bobcat

14. bobcat fox Porcupine owl

15. bobcat coyote owl bear Rabbit hawk fox

16. hawk bobcat owl snake Birds coyote bear

17. coyote snake bear skunk Frog hawk raccoon

18. bear Recycled by decay Deer fox

19. bobcat Recycled by decay Hawk owl

20. bobcat Owl Recycled by decay

21. bobcat Raccoon Recycled by decay

22. Bobcat Not hunted by any animal - Recycled by decay

23. Fox Not hunted by any animal - Recycled by decay

24. Bear Not hunted by any animal - Recycled by decay

25. Coyote Not hunted by any animal - Recycled by decay

26. Sun

27. Leaves

28. Herbs

29. Fruit

30. Nuts

31. Mouse

32. Bird

33. Squirrel

34. Deer

35. Raccoon

36. Bear

37. Porcupine

38. Earthworm

39. Turtle

40. Skunk

41. Rabbit

42. Fox

43. Coyote

44. Snake

45. Owl

46. Frog

47. Bobcat

48. Hawk