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Identify the parts of a food chain and food web.\u003Cbr>2. Explain how energy flows through a food web.\u003Cbr>3. Simulate a food web using a yarn ball.\u003Cbr>4. Draw, label, and create their own food web. |\n| Time Required: 75 minutes |\n| Materials Needed:\u003Cbr>● Ball of yarn or string\u003Cbr>● Sticker name tags (Some way of labeling students as an assigned animal)\u003Cbr>● White paper (one per student)\u003Cbr>● Colored pencils\u003Cbr>● Teacher computer with internet access\u003Cbr>● Projector/Smartboard\u003Cbr>● Image of ecosystem (attached)\u003Cbr>● Food Webs in an Ecosystem handout (attached) |\n| Teacher Preparation:\u003Cbr>● Assign a Legends of Learning Instructional Quick Play playlist for the day(s) you will be teaching the lesson.\u003Cbr>○ Instructional -Middle School -Food Webs in an Ecosystem\u003Cbr>● Make copies of the Food Webs in an Ecosystem Worksheet ( 1 per student) |\n| Engage ( 10 minutes) :\u003Cbr>1. Show the image of an ecosystem (attached) on the Smartboard or projector.\u003Cbr>2. In pairs, have students write down everything that they notice about the image\u003Cbr>a. Animals, plants, landforms, bodies of water, etc.\u003Cbr>3. Discuss as a class what the partnerships noticed from the image.\u003Cbr>4. Explain to students “This image is an example of an ecosystem. You all came up with many animals and plants that live within this ecosystem. Today we are going to talk about how they are all connected.” |\n| Explore (20 minutes) :\u003Cbr>1. Have your students sign in to Legends of Learning. Instruct students to complete the Instructional playlist.\u003Cbr>2. As students complete the assigned game, students should fill out the vocabulary portion of the Food Webs in an Ecosystem handout.\u003Cbr>3. Assist students as needed during game play, pause playlist if you need to address content or questions to the entire class. |\n| Explain ( 15 minutes) :\u003Cbr>1. Review vocabulary from the Food Webs in an Ecosystem handout by talking about |\n\n| specific examples (from the image or other examples students bring up) .\u003Cbr>a. Producer-plants, produce their own food using photosynthesis, begin food chains/webs\u003Cbr>b. Consumer-animals eat other plants or animals to get nutrients because they cannot make their own food.\u003Cbr>c. Decomposers-organisms that eat decaying matter (dead plants and animals) . Bacteria and fungi are examples of decomposers. they break things down and release the nutrients back into the soil for the producers to use.\u003Cbr>d. Herbivore-organisms that mainly eat plants\u003Cbr>e. Omnivore-organisms that eat plants and animals\u003Cbr>f. Carnivore-organisms that mainly eat meat/other animals\u003Cbr>g. Food Chain-sequence of organisms showing how the energy flows. It is one path.\u003Cbr>h. Food Web-network of many food chains, complex, shows how organisms are connected through many paths.\u003Cbr>2. As a class, have the students help you come up with a food chain and write or draw it on the board.\u003Cbr>a. What should our food web start with?\u003Cbr>i. Answer: producer\u003Cbr>b. What is an animal that would eat this producer?\u003Cbr>i. Answer: any consumer (herbivore or omnivore)\u003Cbr>c. What kind of organism do we need to complete the cycle of the food web?\u003Cbr>i. Answer: decomposer\u003Cbr>3. Next, have students come to the board and add other animals and organisms to the food chain to create a food web. |\n| --- |\n| Elaborate ( 10 minutes) :\u003Cbr>1. Assign each student one organism from the Food Web Chart (attached) .\u003Cbr>2. Pass out a sticker name tag and have the students write the name of their organism on the sticker and place it visibly on their shirt.\u003Cbr>3. Have students look at the Food Web Chart on the handout (attached) .\u003Cbr>4. Put students in large groups (ensure that there are producers, consumers, and decomposers represented in each group) .\u003Cbr>5. Pass out a ball of yarn to each group. Starting with a producer, have a producer hold the loose end of the yarn ball, then have them throw the yarn ball to a consumer that would eat it.\u003Cbr>6. 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