Section outline

  • Links to Holistic Report: Ako / Learning to Learn

    Ecosystems, Food Webs + Food Chains

    Activities:

    1. In class learning -- Google Slides (refer to Google Classroom), life sized food web, practice reading food webs
    2. BrainPop -- Food Fight Game
    3. Lab activities --  Blubber experiment - investigating structural adaptations of polar bears
    4. Hands-on activities -- Chatterboxes with animal adaptations, make a zoo enclosure (refer to Google Classroom for instructions)

    Success Criteria: I can/have...

    • Write simple food chains from provided food webs
    • Identify and compare the diets of the three types of consumers 
    • Describe how changes in an ecosystem can affect the survival of living things (eg. disease, predation, habitat loss, etc.)
    • Extension: Write complex food chains using your own research

    Key terms:

    • food web, food chain, predator, prey, competition, producer, primary consumer, secondary consumer, top predator, herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, extinction, endangered, energy

    FOCUS / ARONGA

    FOCUS / ARONGA learning intentions:

    • We are FOCUSING...on identifying the features of animals to clarify what makes them suited to their particular habitat
    • We are FOCUSING...identifying the factors that can impact an animal's habitat to explain why they may need to relocate