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Food Chains Project

Food Chains Project. Due Date: September 6, 2011. An introduction to Food Chains.

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Food Chains Project

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  1. Food Chains Project Due Date: September 6, 2011

  2. An introduction to Food Chains • Every living thing needs energy to live. The sun produces all energy. The suns' light lets plants make their own food and grow. When plants grow, other animals eat the plants to get energy. You are learning about how living things get food and why that relationship is called a food chain. A food chain is the transfer of energy from one living thing to another living thing.

  3. Here’s an example • Here is an example of a food chain. The sun creates energy for the oak tree to make its' own food. The oak tree is called a producer because it produces its' own food directly from the sun's energy. It makes acorns that the squirrel eats. The squirrel is an herbivore because it eats only seeds, plants, and nuts. The bobcat is a carnivore, or a meat-eater, and it eats the squirrel. Herbivores and carnivores are both consumers because they eat other living things to get their energy. A decomposer is something that eats non-living things. After the bobcat dies, mold will help • decompose. A vulture is a scavenger, or a decomposer.

  4. Sun --> Oak Tree --> Squirrel -->Bobcat--> Fungus

  5. The Task • Your job is to define and understand the following words: food chain, producer, consumer, decomposer, herbivore, carnivore, and omnivore. • Then, you will apply your knowledge of these vocabulary terms by creating two food chains. Each food chain you make will fit on one sheet of plain white typing paper.

  6. What needs to be in each food chain? • Both food chains must have a picture of at least one living thing in each of these categories: • producer • consumer • decomposer • Each living thing must be labeled with the correct animal or plant name. The sun must be pictured and labeled in each food chain, showing that the sun is the beginning of all energy on the planet. All consumers must

  7. What can you use to make it? • You may draw or find pictures of living things in magazines, newspapers, • or you may print pictures from the computer.

  8. How are you getting graded? • You can check out the evaluation section end of the PowerPoint to find a rubric.

  9. The Process • How do I do it? • Step One -You will get information about food chains by searching the internet and from what we did in class. Begin your search in the resources section of this webquest. • Step Two -Define the following vocabulary: food chain, producer, consumer, decomposer, herbivore, carnivore, and omnivore. • Step Three -Create two food chains on paper using a variety of animals for each food chain. Look at the rubric in the evaluation to make sure you have everything you need on your food chains.

  10. Resources • http://geography4kids.com/files/land_foodchain.html • http://library.thinkquest.org/11353/food.htm?tqskip=1 • http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngexplorer/0309/quickflicks/ • http://www.ncfisheries.net/kids/foodchain.htm

  11. Conclusion • Congratulations, young ecologists! • You now understand how all energy begins with the sun and how living things get energy.

  12. Evaluation

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