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| 1. Choose from one of the following types of food chains: |
| 2. Choose roles for the members of your group. Roles include: |
| RESEARCHERS | Use Internet web sites to find information related to your team's food chain and read the information to the team. |
| RECORDERS | Record important information found to answer your team's questions. |
| INFORMATION PROCESSORS | Enter information onto a word processing application. |
| EDITORS | Edit and revise food chain reports and projects. |
| ILLUSTRATORS | Create food chain charts, drawings, and diagrams. |
| PRESENTERS | Share your group's findings with the other groups. |
| 3. Now you and your group will begin to research your chosen habitat's food chains and webs. From your research you will write a report of information using a word processing program that answers the following questions: |
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| A. What is a food chain? |
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngexplorer/0309/quickflicks/ Watch the BrainPop movie on food chains. http://www.crick.northants.sch.uk/Flash%20Studio/cfsscience/food%20chains/foodchains.html This site will explain the basic facts about food chains.
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| B. Definitions |
Find the definitions
for the following words and terms: energy, producer, consumer, carnivore, herbivore,
omnivore, predator, food web, prey, decomposers, habitat, community.
Use the following sites for definitions: http://www.arcytech.org/java/population/facts_foodchain.html http://www.planetpals.com/foodchain.html http://www.thefreedictionary.com/food+chain http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/fooodchains.htm |
| C. Who are some members of your habitat? |
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Now that you have researched food chains, it's time to see if you can make
some food chains. Log onto the following sites and do the food chain
activities there. http://www.crick.northants.sch.uk/Flash%20Studio/cfsscience/food%20chains/foodchains.html http://www.zephyrus.co.uk/foodpuzzlechaina.html http://www.ecokids.ca/pub/eco_info/topics/frogs/chain_reaction/index.cfm#
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| 5. Create two food chains from your chosen habitat. Illustrate it using KidPix. Use your habitat's resource page for the list of animals that are native to this island. In your research you will find the characteristics of the native animals. Read them carefully to find out what your animal eats! |
| 6. Your team will now take all your information: your research, your vocabulary definitions, your created food chains and illustrations, and put it together to make a beautiful food chain book. Make sure each topic goes on a new page. All illustrations should be annotated. Remember the roles in your group. All books will be presented to the class. |
