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Get the youth to commit to agreeing or disagreeing with the following remark: “I think everything you ate came from plants.”  \n• Who ate plants in their lunch? Discuss.  \n• What is something you ate that did not come from a plant?  \nDiscuss.  \n• Get the group to discuss how meat and dairy products come from plants in an indirect way.  \n• Is there anything you could eat that doesn’t come from plants?  \n• Where does a plant get its energy? Do a quick review of photosynthesis: plants are made of mostly water (H2 O) and carbon dioxide (CO2 ), with some nutrients extracted from the soil. The sun powers this process. (See Learn more about photosynthesis below if time allows.)  \nMaterials:  \n• Index cards  \n• Biodiversity worksheet (in visuals folder)  \n• Tape  \n• Twine  \n• Laminated copies of food webs (or Internet access and laptops)  \nMethods  \nActivity 1: Biodiversity “20 Questions”(20-30 minutes)  \n1. Hand out the Biodiversity Worksheet (see visuals folder). Using the worksheet as a guide, facilitate a question and answer session with youth, as a way of introducing key vocabulary related to biodiversity (i.e., consumer, decomposer, predator, prey, etc.) .  \n2. Once youth have been introduced to key vocabulary, pass out one index card to each participant with the name of an organism written on it. (One organism per card. Examples are below.) Place the cards facedown in front of the youth, so that the names of species cannot be seen. Instruct them that they must not look at the species name on their own cards. Then, at the count of three, youth will flip their cards up to their foreheads, so that they cannot see their own organism, but can see those of others.  \n3. Working with partners, youth will take turns asking each other a series of “yes or no” questions in order to deduce the name of their organism. For example, they might ask whether their organism is a producer, consumer, predator, prey, mammal, reptile, insect, plant, etc. [Note: The facilitator may wish to model this with the youth.]  \n4. Youth continue asking questions until they have figured out what species is written on their card.  \nExamples for index cards:  \n\n| Honey Bee | Ant | Oak Tree | Squirrel |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Mushroom | Spider | Snake | Deer |\n| Mouse | Woodpecker | Frog | Ash Tree |\n| Earthworm | Butterfly | Snail | Robin |\n| Grass | Flower | Hawk | Fly |\n\nActivity 2: Web of Life (20-30 minutes)  \n1. When everyone has figured out what they are, they will gather in a circle (taking their organism cards with them) .  \n2. All these organisms are connected within a food web. We are going to model this with a ball of yarn.  \n3. When you get the ball of yarn, toss it to someone holding a card with which your organism has a relationship. Encourage youth to describe this relationship using the vocabulary introduced at the beginning of the activity.  \n4. Each person should get the ball of yarn at least once. You should end with a web of yarn that models the interactions between the organisms.  \n5. What if one of these species were not here? Ask one participant to tug at the yarn. Then ask those who felt that tug to raise their hands. Then have the people who felt that tug pull on the yarn. Now have all who felt that tug raise their hands.  \nDiscuss the word interdependence. Ask what would happen if one species in this ecosystem were to go extinct. Who would it affect? What if a new species were introduced to this ecosystem? Who would it affect?  \nReflection Questions (Journal or Discussion)  \n• What are","cbCaicO1TxPxJFyO","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaicO1TxPxJFyO","pdf",79514,"English","# Objectives\n## Activity 1: Biodiversity “20 Questions”\n## Activity 2: Web of Life\n## Reflection Questions\n## Supplemental Information\n## Vocabulary","[{\"question\":\"What does the activity teach about biodiversity?\",\"answer\":\"It explains what biodiversity means, why it is important, and what could threaten it. It also connects biodiversity to ecosystem stability.\"},{\"question\":\"How do youth discover the organism on their index card?\",\"answer\":\"They ask partners a series of yes-or-no questions to deduce whether their organism matches categories like producer, consumer, predator, prey, and other traits.\"},{\"question\":\"How is the “Web of Life” modeled and what does it illustrate?\",\"answer\":\"A ball of yarn links organisms based on predator-prey or other relationships. 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