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Showing posts with label food web. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food web. Show all posts
Thursday, September 15, 2016
Food Chain Activity Pack
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZrA7r34OAF26HxWMep5rVQubxY9z15tf/view?usp=sharing
Food Chain Card Game (72 cards) Cards include animals (carnivores, omnivores and herbivores) and plants from the ocean, desert, rainforest, tundra and forest. There are 2 sets of cards: easy and advanced level. The easy level is color coded so kids know what habitat each item belongs to (making building a food chain easier). The advanced cards are not color coded. Kids have to figure out what eats what based on their knowledge of what animals and plants belong to each biome. Game is played like Go Fish.
Food Chain Freeze Tag Headbands (36 Headbands)10 different food chains from different habitats
This activity is inspired by Eecko World's "We're All In This Together."
Give each child a construction paper headband with a different plant or animal that is part of a food chain (include organisms from different habitats). Take students to a large open area outside. Kids have to look for a plant or animal that their organism consumes. They tag what they eat! If a child is tagged, they must freeze (stand still)! Who is left at the end of the game?!
Afterwards, have kids try to find organisms that belong to their habitat (creating small groups). Kids must problem solve and try to figure out who belongs in their "group." Also, where would you find the organisms in their group? What habitat do they live in?!
3 Different Reinforcement Ideas, 1 printable: Food Chain Graphic Organizer
Tuesday, August 12, 2014
Learning with Sticky Notes and Yarn
Labels:
addition,
animals,
division,
food web,
games,
let's review,
math,
multiplication,
subtraction,
synonyms / antonyms
Thursday, July 18, 2013
Food Chain Freeze Tag
This activity is inspired by Eecko World's "We're All In This Together." Rather than having kids play tag using organisms from a single food chain, make it more challenging by adding a variety of food chains!
Give each child a construction paper headband with a different plant or animal that is part of a food chain (include organisms from different habitats). Take students to a large open area outside. Kids have to look for a plant or animal that their organism consumes. They tag what they eat! If a child is tagged, they must freeze (stand still)! Who is left at the end of the game?!
Afterwards, have kids try to find organisms that belong to their habitat (creating small groups). Kids must problem solve and try to figure out who belongs in their "group." Also, where would you find the organisms in their group? What habitat do they live in?!
Give each child a construction paper headband with a different plant or animal that is part of a food chain (include organisms from different habitats). Take students to a large open area outside. Kids have to look for a plant or animal that their organism consumes. They tag what they eat! If a child is tagged, they must freeze (stand still)! Who is left at the end of the game?!
Afterwards, have kids try to find organisms that belong to their habitat (creating small groups). Kids must problem solve and try to figure out who belongs in their "group." Also, where would you find the organisms in their group? What habitat do they live in?!
Saturday, June 8, 2013
Biodiversity Scavenger Hunt
Kids hunt for abiotic and biotic factors in their backyard (or school yard). Then, based on their observations, they create a food chain or web to represent what they discovered in the ecosystem they explored! Click here for the printable
Labels:
animals,
biodiversity,
ecosystem,
food web,
habitat,
insects,
living vs. non-living,
nature,
outdoors,
scavenger hunt,
science,
spring / summer
Friday, February 1, 2013
Animal Cracker Habitats / Food Chain
Labels:
animals,
food science,
food web,
habitat,
zoo
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Food Chain Stacking Cups
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animal photos via alamy
snake via flickr cc: Matt Reinbold
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If you have older students, and are working with more complex wood webs, have kids stack cups in a pyramid shape, rather than nested.
Monday, April 30, 2012
Ecosystem: Food Web
Toss around a ball of yarn and see how all creatures are connected in an ecosystem! Each child catches the ball of yarn, calls out one component of the food chain in an ecosystem, following their previous classmate's response. Continue to circulate the ball until everyone is holding on to a piece of yarn. Tell students to pull tight! Then, say a tree got cut down or some aspect interfered with the ecosystem. Cut the string and see how "creatures" get affected by one change.
Labels:
animals,
biodiversity,
ecosystem,
food web,
science
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