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This section explains how energy transfers through the food chain and web, as well at demonstrating the interactions of species within a food web.  \nResources required: food chain handout, food web handout, species photo cards, access to interactive, sticky labels for children, ball of wool or string.  \n1. FIRE STARTER  \nRecap key words including food chain, food web, producer, consumer, and apex predator.  \n2. GAINING GROUND  \nExplain that energy is transferred through an ecosystem by consumption. Introduce food chains and food webs asa way of visualising this transfer. Be sure to emphasise the direction in which energy flows, and therefore the direction in which the arrows point. Use the food chain and food web handouts to work through with students. You may need to further explain levels of consumers. Images of species can be found on the species photo cards.  \n3. MAKING WAVES  \nTo demonstrate how animals interact within food webs, play a game with the students. On individual sticky labels write species names that make up various food chains.  \nGive each student a label. One student will be the sun, they will need to hold the ball of wool and stand in the middle with the others making a circle around them. Read out a food chain that the students have studied and pass the ball of wool from producers to consumers in turn. The ball of wool then goes back to the sun, and another food chain is read out. It shows the interdependence between species and reveals what happens to other species in the food chain should one suffer a setback. For example, describe a decrease in marine iguana numbers during El Niño and tug on the strings attached to the iguana. The Galapagos hawk should feel a tug, as they are predators of the iguana. Discuss implications.  \n4. FUTURE FOCUS  \nStudents choose a selection of species using the species fact files on the site to create their own annotated food web of the Galapagos. 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