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FOOD WEBS LESSON PLAN – A COMPLETE SCIENCE LESSON USING THE 5E METHOD OF INSTRUCTION

At the end of this comprehensive food webs lesson plan, students will be able to diagram the flow of energy through living systems, including food chains and food webs. Students will also be able to describe food webs within marine, freshwater, and terrestrial ecosystems. Each lesson is designed using the 5E method of instruction to ensure maximum comprehension by the students.

The following post will walk you through each of the steps and activities from the food webs lesson plan.

Objective Introduction

At the beginning of the lesson, the class will do a Think-Pair-Share to discuss the objective.

Class Activity

The teacher will pass out organism signs to students and select a producer, primary secondary, tertiary, and sun card to come to the front of the room. The teacher will ask the class to place students in order, diagramming a whom eats whom situation. The teacher will then connect the chain by using different color yarn. The different colors represent the energy transferring from one level to the next. Continue this and create a second food chain.

Student Activity

Estimated Class Time for the Engagement: 20-30 minutes

EXPLORATION

This student-centered station lab is set up so students can begin to explore food webs. Four of the stations are considered input stations where students are learning new information about food webs, and four of the stations are output stations where students will be demonstrating their mastery of the input stations.  Each of the stations is differentiated to challenge students using a different learning style.  You can read more about how I set up the station labs here .

EXPLORE IT!

Students will be working in pairs to recreate the engagement activity that they went over at the beginning of the food webs lesson. Students will have 2 images that they will be looking at. The first image will require the students to list 7 organisms that live within a desert ecosystem. Students will explain how those organisms are related. The second image is the same as the first, however, includes a desert ecosystem food web. Students will explain how plants get their energy, the direction of the arrows, and what would the impact be if the hawk was removed from the web.

WATCH IT!

At this station, students will be watching a 4-minute video describing how wolves change rivers. Students will then answer questions related to the video and record their answers on their lab station sheet. For example, name 2 impacts the wolves had on the deer population at Yellowstone, how did the re-introduction impact tree populations, and how wolves impacted the flow of rivers in Yellowstone.

RESEARCH IT!

The research station will allow students to get online and participate in an interactive website about food webs. Students will read about food webs and what a trophic level means. Students interact with a food web game where they will drag and drop organisms within an Antarctic food web template. Once students have placed cards, they can check their answers and will be given opportunities to fix mistakes. With each concept, students will answer a few questions to help make the research more concrete.

READ IT!

This station will provide students with a one page reading about food webs. In the reading students will discover what the term ecology means and methods of ecological interdependence. Students will also learn from the reading that the many relationships that occur in an ecosystem that allows organisms to thrive an survive. There are 4 follow-up questions that the students will answer to show reading comprehension of the subject.

ASSESS IT!

WRITE IT!

Students who can answer open-ended questions about the lab truly understand the concepts that are being taught.  At this station, the students will be answering three questions like describing the impact of removing an organism from a food web, describe the flow of energy in a marine food web, and explain the reason why humans are dependent on a healthy ecosystem.

ILLUSTRATE IT!

Your visual students will love this station.  Students will be creating a sample food web from an ecosystem they would find at a nearby park. Students will include the Sun, at least 7 organisms and arrows depicting the flow of energy.

ORGANIZE IT!

The organize it station allows your students to place organisms on a food web template. The marine food web contains 9 cards that students will place in the correct order showing the correct flow of energy.

Estimated Class Time for the Exploration: 1-2, 45 minute class periods

EXPLANATION

The explanation activities will become much more engaging for the class once they have completed the exploration station lab.  During the explanation piece, the teacher will be clearing up any misconceptions about food webs with an interactive PowerPoint, anchor charts, and interactive notebook activities. The food webs lesson includes a PowerPoint with activities scattered throughout to keep the students engaged.

The students will also be interacting with their journals using INB templates for food webs.  Each INB activity is designed to help students compartmentalize information for a greater understanding of the concept.  The food webs INB template will diagram the flow of energy that takes place in a terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystem. Estimated Class Time for the Exploration: 2-3, 45 minute class periods

ELABORATION

The elaboration section of the 5E method of instruction is intended to give students choice on how they can prove mastery of the concept.  When students are given choice the ‘buy-in’ is much greater than when the teacher tells them the project they will have to create.  Each of the food web projects will allow students to show their understanding of the flow of energy transfer from organism to organism.

Estimated Class Time for the Elaboration: 2-3, 45 minute class periods (can also be used as an at-home project)

The final piece of the 5E model is to evaluate student comprehension.  Included in every 5E lesson is a homework assignment, assessment, and modified assessment.  Research has shown that homework needs to be meaningful and applicable to real-world activities in order to be effective.  When possible, I like to give open-ended assessments to truly gauge the student’s comprehension.

Estimated Class Time for the Elaboration: 1, 45 minute class period

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25 Fun Food Web and Food Chain Activities

It’s all about the circle of life.

Any kid who’s ever seen  The Lion King certainly already knows a bit about food chains and food webs (“ It’s the CIIIIRRRR-CLE … the circle of LIFE!” ). It’s a topic that can be tricky to cover, but it can be done successfully with a little finesse on the part of teachers. These activities help students understand how important these concepts are, and why healthy food webs and chains are necessary for the whole planet to thrive. So try one of our food web or food chain activities with your class this year.

1. Start with an anchor chart

A food chain follows the direct path of energy between species. Food webs are more complex and involve a give-and-take between many organisms in an environment. This clever anchor chart helps explain the difference between the two.

2. Introduce food webs and food chains during story time

Books are a great way to segue into discussions about food chains and food webs. Here are some of our favorites.

• Trout Are Made of Trees (Sayre/Endle)
• Horseshoe Crabs and Shorebirds (Crenson/Cannon)
• Butternut Hollow Pond (Heinz/Marstall)
• Who Eats What? (Lauber/Keller)

3. Let The Lion King explain the concept

Seriously, Mufasa’s speech in  The Lion King is one of the best explanations of food chains and webs around. This video covers the idea in more detail.

4. Put together a food chain puzzle

These free printable puzzles are a fun way for kids to learn a variety of food chains. (For virtual classrooms, try a digital version instead .)

5. Use a paper plate to show the circle of life

Turn kids loose with a stack of magazines, or print pictures from the internet. Then assemble them into food chains around a paper plate.

6. Try some StudyJams

Scholastic’s StudyJams work for both in-person and online classrooms. Watch the entertaining video, then use the self-assessment tool to check kids’ knowledge.

7. Create food chain art

We love that this food web activity is not just a science project but an art project as well! Kids choose a food chain to illustrate, then represent each part of it inside the mouth of the next.

8. Construct food chain pyramids

A pyramid can be a helpful way to look at food chains. Kids will have fun illustrating with their own artwork.

9. Have a digital food fight

Use this interactive game with your whole class online or in person. Teams fight it out to see which animal can create the best food web and ecosystem for survival.

10. Assemble food chain links

This very literal interpretation of a food chain is one that kids can easily do on their own, whether in the classroom or at home. All they need is paper, glue, scissors, and a little creativity.

11. Make food chain nesting dolls

Visit Super Simple for a free printable to make these adorable ocean food chain nesting dolls. Then challenge kids to choose another ecosystem and create their own.

12. Stack food chain cups

Each of these cups represents one part of a food chain. Stack them to show how they all fit together. Challenge kids to see who can stack their cups correctly in the fastest time!

13. Watch a food web video

This food web activity may not be hands-on, but it is a good way to introduce the concept to kids. This video does a terrific job teaching them about food webs and chains and will surely be a hit with kids.

14. Connect the food web with rubber bands

Use a bulletin board, pushpins, and rubber bands to demonstrate how interconnected a food chain can become. Use this in a classroom science station, or complete the activity together as a whole class virtually.

15. Display the food web with model animals

Gather up all those toy animals and put them to good use! Try using different colors of yarn to represent predators, prey, scavengers, and more.

16. Turn the food web into a marble maze

We love how this activity turns a biology lesson into a STEM challenge. Kids will get a kick out of playing with their food web marble mazes, so the learning never stops.

17. Walk a life-sized food web

Head out to the playground for a socially distanced interactive food web game! Lay out cards showing all the organisms in a food web and have kids help place arrows for the flow of energy. Then, kids can walk along the web by following the arrows to really understand how it all interacts.

18. Play a food web PE Game

A science lesson that also doubles as a PE game? Yes, please. This food web activity gets kids moving, which will help reinforce the concept of food chains, especially for kids who have trouble sitting still!

19. Create an edible food web

There are few things kids love more than snacks. Make food webs come alive with snacks that stand in for various plant and animal life. You’re definitely going to want to have extra goodies on hand since kids will be sure to snack while learning!

20. Use toys to create a food chain

This is another food web option that utilizes toy animals. Before doing this activity, you will want to gather all those little animal and food toys you have lying around. Once you’ve gathered your toys, add in some arrows and a sun and have your students show food chains. This food web activity will feel more like playing than learning!

21. Create a huge classroom web

Assign each student a plant or animal and then have one student start holding a ball of yarn or string. Have students connect their string to whoever they eat and so on and so forth until a web is spun!

22. Color and cut out foldable food chains

These puppet-like fold-outs are the perfect way to introduce the concept of food webs while also working on some gross motor skills. Kids will have fun coloring, cutting, and pasting these templates .

23. Fill some pockets

These food chain pockets are so cute and so useful in teaching kids the various categories for food chains.

24. Build a food chain chain

These food chain chains are the perfect project for kids to create during a food chain and web unit. First, have them choose a biome and then create a chain that shows the transfer of energy from producers to consumers and decomposers.

25. Display a food web bulletin board

Bulletin boards are a great resource in a classroom for reinforcing information since they are on display all day. Have your students help create the plant and animal cards so they can feel like they had a hand in the process!

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Assignment: Food Webs

Created by Sandra T on 12/20/2021

10 activities: 10 games

Activity 1: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 20 min

Digiworld Adventure: Learn Food Webs

Go on an awesome adventure to the Digiworld and learn Food Webs together with Dr. Web! Play as Jessie / Jasson and learn more about organisms, ecosystems, and how food webs work.

Teacher Ratings (10) 3.7 stars.

Student Ratings (3560) 3.8 stars.

Activity 2: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 10 min

Food Webs: Adventure of the Energy (Elem)

A fairy named Elva is going to help you learn about ecosystems and the role each organism has in an ecosystem. You will start with the sun and explore the roles of producers, primary and secondary consumers, and decomposers. You will follow energy as it moves between each organism. You'll enjoy witnessing how energy continuously moves.

Teacher Ratings (50) 3.9 stars.

Student Ratings (15609) 3.8 stars.

Activity 3: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 13 min

Predator Vs Prey

Predator Vs Prey is an interactive game for students. They will have fun at each level and will navigate the food web by playing as various producers, consumers, and decomposers!

Teacher Ratings (215) 4.1 stars.

Student Ratings (39803) 4.0 stars.

Activity 4: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 11 min

Cycles of Matter

Take an interactive tour of the cycles of matter to learn how energy flows between organisms!

Teacher Ratings (103) 4.2 stars.

Student Ratings (29801) 3.7 stars.

Activity 5: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 9 min

Biosphere Architect

Students act as biosphere architects! Their goal is to develop a sustainable, balanced ecosystem in which producers, herbivores, carnivores, and decomposers interact and thrive.

Teacher Ratings (83) 4.1 stars.

Student Ratings (31122) 4.3 stars.

Activity 6: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 20 min

What eats What (Elem)

You will learn all about food chains and food webs, and each module will teach you a different component. After each module, you will have a chance to practice labeling the different parts of a food chain and food web. Correctly labeling the parts of a food chain and food web will yield more points. Don't worry....if you make a mistake, you can always try again!

Teacher Ratings (177) 4.3 stars.

Student Ratings (29636) 3.4 stars.

Activity 7: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 15 min

Food Web Builder

Great practice for building food webs! Players use pop-up clues about organisms to correctly place them into food chains or food webs from a variety of ecosystems around the world!

Teacher Ratings (608) 4.3 stars.

Student Ratings (62437) 3.6 stars.

Activity 8: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 14 min

Vee and PC-101 are aliens from planet Z, and they are wandering from planet to planet to learn about their habitats! Take a journey with Vee and PC-101 to learn about the food webs of Earth's organisms!

Teacher Ratings (96) 4.5 stars.

Student Ratings (63072) 3.9 stars.

Activity 9: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 18 min

Food Webs Around the World

Visit various biomes around the world. Collect all the plant and animal cards to learn about their roles in their ecosystem.

Teacher Ratings (78) 4.7 stars.

Student Ratings (39216) 3.6 stars.

Activity 10: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 17 min

DNAtion is an adventure about creating a healthy ecosystem. To do that, you must adapt to the universal rule of life: everything is connected with each other. Populate the continent with animals, and make sure they have everything they need to survive!

Teacher Ratings (130) 4.0 stars.

Student Ratings (18022) 4.3 stars.

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Students construct possible food webs for six different ecosystems and learn about producers, consumers, herbivores, carnivores, and decomposers. Student sheets are provided in English and in Spanish.

This activity is from The Science of Food Teacher's Guide. Although it is most appropriate for use with students in grades 3–5, the lessons are easily adaptable for other grade levels. The guide is also available in print format.

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Environments, such as oceans, forests, lakes, and deserts, are homes to different communities of organisms. Within each distinct environment, plants, animals, and other living things must find ways to obtain water, food, and other necessary resources. Different kinds of organisms have different needs. As seen in the previous activities, plants need air, water, nutrients (usually from soil), and light. Animals need air, water, and food.

All animals depend on plants and other producers. Some animals eat plants for food. Other animals eat animals that eat the plants, and so on. Some organisms even feed on waste and dead material. The general sequence of who eats whom in an ecosystem is known as a food chain. Energy is passed from one organism to another at each step in the chain. Most organisms, however, have more than one food source. Thus, a web, which depicts all of the different foods eaten by each animal, is a more accurate model of interactions within an ecosystem.

This activity lets students construct possible food webs for different ecosystems, as they learn about the roles of different kinds of living organisms.

Producers make all the molecules they need from simple substances and energy from the sun.

All other living things depend on producers for food.

Living things that must eat other organisms as food are known as consumers.

Food webs show all of the different interactions among producers and consumers in an ecosystem.

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Integrating information

Drawing conclusions

Materials per Student Group (see Setup)

set of crayons: one each of blue, green, red, and yellow

set of Ecosystem Cards representing one ecosystem

sheet of white construction or drawing paper, 9 in. x 12 in.

Make copies of the six sets of Ecosystem Cards for students in advance. Each group of students will receive one set of the cards.

Have students work in teams of 4.

Remind students of the previous activity in which they explored plants that people eat. Ask, Do people only eat one kind of food? What kinds of food do people eat? Explain to students that most other animals also have several food sources, although not all animals are omnivores (eat plants and animals).

Discuss with students the different kinds of consumers: Herbivores (primary consumers) feed on plants and other producers. Cows, camels, caterpillars, and aphids are herbivores. Carnivores (secondary consumers) feed on other animals. Most consumers are animals, but a few are plants that trap and digest insects. There can be several levels of carnivores in a food chain. Lions, owls, and lobsters are carnivores. Omnivores eat plants and animals. Pigs, dogs, humans, and cockroaches all are omnivores. Decomposers and scavengers feed off the dead remains and waste of other organisms at any step along a food chain. Scavengers, such as vultures and flies, feed on remains of animals that have been killed or that die naturally. Decomposers live off waste products and parts of dead organisms. Many kinds of bacteria and fungi (molds and mushrooms) are decomposers. The decomposers themselves are important food sources for other organisms that live in soil, such as worms and insects.

Give each group of students a different set of Ecosystem Cards. Each set consists of six cards depicting producers and consumers typically found within a given environment.

Have students in each group read the information on the cards.

Ask students to identify which organisms are the producers in their ecosystems. Next, have the members of each group identify which cards represent different kinds of consumers (herbivores, carnivores,and scavenger/decomposers).

Once students have identified the producers and different kinds of consumers in their ecosystems, have them discuss “who might eat whom” among the organisms depicted on their cards. For example, in the Freshwater Pond set of cards, the bluegill fish (carnivore) might eat dragonfly nymphs and snails. The snail (decomposer/scavenger) might eat the green algae, as well as waste or dead body parts from all of the other organisms in the system. Have students consider possible food sources for each of the organisms in their ecosystem.

Give each group a sheet of drawing paper. Instruct students to write the names of each of the organisms in their ecosystems around the edges of the sheet. Have them write the names of the producers in green, the herbivores in yellow, the carnivores in blue, and the decomposers and scavengers in red.

Next, have students draw lines to connect each consumer to all of its food sources. They will find that there are many ways to connect even as few as six organisms within an ecosystem.

Encourage students to think about the complex relationships within ecosystems by asking questions such as, What would happen if there were no producers in your ecosystem? No decomposers? Where would humans fit in your food web? Do humans also depend on many different plants and animals?

Have students (individually or in groups) draw pictures of their ecosystems, including the organisms they used to construct their food webs.

Have students conduct additional research about the ecosystems and/or organisms that they used for the food webs by consulting resources available at the library, on the internet, or from sources such as DVD/CD collections.

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Food Webs Science Games

In this series of games, your students will learn about how organisms are related in food webs in which some animals eat plants for food and other animals eat the animals that eat plants.   Food Webs  learning objective — based on NGSS and state standards — delivers improved student engagement and academic performance in your classroom, as demonstrated by research .

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Concepts Covered

An ecosystem includes all of the living organisms and nonliving components in a shared environment. Organisms of the same species that live in the same place together are a population. A community is all of the populations that live together in the same space. A food web shows how matter and energy move in an ecosystem. An herbivore is an animal that consumes only plants. A carnivore is an animal that consumes only other animals. An omnivore is an animal that consumes both plants and animals.

All organisms obtain living and nonliving resources from their environment. Examples of living resources are plants and animals. Examples of nonliving resources are sunlight, air, water, temperature, and soil. Interdependency means that every organism depends on other organisms to survive. Different plants and animals have unique and diverse life cycles.

Animals need energy to perform their life processes. A producer is an organism that can produce its own food to obtain energy. Examples of producers are plants and phytoplankton. Plants obtain the material for growth mostly from air and water. Consumers are animals that eat other organisms to obtain energy. The energy in an animal’s food was once energy from the Sun that was captured by plants. Decomposers are organisms that break down dead plant and animal remains.

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Animals rarely exist in single, one-dimensional food chains. In order to demonstrate a more realistic representation of how energy passes from living thing to another, students will create a food web from different food chains in a single habitat . In a similar way to food chains, the arrows represent the flow of energy from one animal to another. The different colors are there to emphasize the different trophic levels, but are not necessary.

As an alternative to this assignment, give students the example food web and get students to identify different food chains from it. As an extension, get students to start to thinking how the population of one type of living thing affects another. For example if the number of Mussels increase, how will this affect the population of whelk?

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In the real world animals rarely exist in single food chains. Often animals need to eat different plants and animals to get all the nutrients they need. One way of showing more complex energy transfer relationships between living thing is using food webs. Create a food web from different food chains. Remember that all food webs start with energy from the Sun.

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• Use these food chains to put together your food web. Use Photos for Class to find images and label them with their names. Make sure to use arrows to show the flow of energy from one living thing to another.
• Sun → Phytoplankton → Zooplankton → Caridean Shrimp → Cod
• Sun → Phytoplankton → Zooplankton → Caridean Shrimp → Laughing Gull
• Sun → Phytoplankton → Mussels → Laughing Gull
• Sun → Phytoplankton → Mussels → Jonah Crab → Laughing Gull
• Sun → Phytoplankton → Mussels → Whelk
• Sun → Phytoplankton → Mussels → American Lobster
• Sun → Seaweed → Limpet → Jonah Crab
• Sun → Seaweed → Limpet → Whelk → Laughing Gull

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Difficulty Level 4 (Difficult / Complex)

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Food Chains

• Buccinum undatum (Common Whelk) • S. Rae • License Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
• Cod • Cocayhi • License Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
• fish1879 • NOAA Photo Library • License Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
• fish3260 • NOAA Photo Library • License Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
• Jonah crab • U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Northeast Region • License Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
• Laughing Gull (Leucophaeus atricilla) • acryptozoo • License Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
• limpet shell • S. Rae • License Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
• Lobster • Jim, the Photographer • License Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
• Mussel • Andy Gant • License Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
• prawn • Dan Hershman • License Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
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Year 7 Food Webs/Chains

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In a Food Web the Arrow always points to

the Consumer

the Producer

What are the Producers in this Food Web?

Plantain & Grasshopper

Rabbit & Plantain

Berries & Grasshopper

Plantain & Berries

What are the Apex Predators in this Food Web?

Snake & Buzzard

Fox & Buzzard

Dragonfly & Buzzard

Fox & Frog

Which Organism gets it energy by eating Mouses, Snakes & Titmouses?

Which Organisms are 1st Tier Consumers?

Rabbit & Mouse

Rabbit & Snake

Rabbit & Hawk

Snake & Hawk

Which organisms are Herbivores?

Hawk & Snake

Snake & Rabbit

Hawk & Mouse

Mouse & Rabbit

Which of the following diagrams shows all of the feeding connections in an ecosystem?

Food Pyramid

Energy Pyramid

An organism that breaks down dead plants and animals, is known as a ?

Apex Predator

How many Organisms in this Food Web are Carnivores?

Which of these Organisms do not get Energy from the Pacific Tree Frog?

Pine Marten

Western Whiptail

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Food Web Activities

• African Grassland Food Web Puppet Show (Pre-K- Grade 2)
• African Rainforest Food Web Matching
• African Savannah Food Web Activity
• African Savannah Food Web Matching Activity
• All Animals Eat Food - Matching (5th Grade NGSS)
• All Animals Eat Food - Matching (Kindergarten NGSS)
• Amazon Rainforest Food Web - Short Answer Activity
• Amazon Rainforest Food Web Activity
• Amazon Rainforest Food Web Matching Activity
• An Amazon Rainforest Food Web - Activity
• Animal Diet Matching
• Antarctic Food Web Coloring Page
• Arctic – Polar Region Food Web Activity
• Asian Rainforest Food Web Matching
• Build a Desert Food Web
• Build a Food Web Game
• Build a Forest Food Web Activity
• Build an Antarctic Food Web
• Connect the Predators to Their Prey to Create a Food Web
• Coral Reef Food Web Activity
• Deciduous Forest Food Web Activity
• Desert Animal Diet – Matching
• Desert Food Web Activity
• Drawing Food Webs with Own Animal Art
• Food Web Activity and Teaching Visual Aid (Models)
• Food Web Lecture with Handouts
• Food Web on the African Savannah - Critical Thinking (K-2)
• Forest Food Web Matching (NGSS Grade 5)
• Hunting Falcons – Food Web Game
• Meat Eater or Plant Eater? Card Sorting (Kindergarten NGSS)
• Name the Parts of a Food Web
• North American Prairie Food Web Activity
• Ocean Animal Diet Matching
• Parts of a Food Web - Matching (Color)
• Parts of the Amazon Rainforest Food Web - Matching
• Parts of the Food Web - Matching (6-8 Grade)
• Predator Prey Tag - Acting Out the Food Web
• Resource Availability in Food Webs - Critical Thinking (6-8 Grade NGSS)
• Wetland Food Web Activity
• Wetland Food Web and Trophic Levels - Coloring Page
• Wetland Food Web and Trophic Levels - Label and Color
• What Desert Animals Eat - Matching (Color)
• What Do Grizzly Bears Eat? Foldable Activity
• What Do I Eat? Match the Amazon Rainforest Animal to Its Food
• What Do I Eat? Match the Animal to its Food (Color K-4)
• What Do I Eat? Match the Desert Animal to Its Food
• What Do I Eat? Match the Forest Animal to Its Food
• What Do I Eat? Match the Wetland Animal to its Food
• What Do Lions Eat? Foldable Activity
• What Do Polar Bears Eat? Foldable Activity
• What Rainforest Animals Eat - Matching (Color)

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Related Activities: Animal Diets: Foldable Activity Animal Diets: Print-Copy-Cut-Paste Food Web (Trophic Levels): Foldable Activity

Visual Aids: Food Webs Explained - Poster

Graphic Organizer: Trophic Levels Graphic Organizer

Exploringnature.org has more than 2,000 illustrated animals. Read about them, color them, label them, learn to draw them.

Create Your Own Food Web Project

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Because food webs are typically an elementary/middle school topic, I created this higher level assignment for use with my 9th grade biology class. The assignment asks students to randomly select an animal that they have never heard of before, research that animal, and then create their own food web that includes the animal. Students are then asked to label the producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, tertiary consumers, detritivores, omnivores, carnivores, and herbivores on their food web.

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