Classroom food web
This lesson is to demonstrate which organisms feed on one another and how food webs are created.
A lesson plan for grade 6 Science
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Learning outcomes
The learner will gain hands-on experience of how food webs are interconnected.
Teacher planning
Time required for lesson
45 minutes
Materials/resources
- pencils
- colored pencils
- markers
- drawing paper
- a ball of red yarn
Pre-activities
The learner must have prior knowledge of organisms and their roles in an ecosystem.
Activities
- The teacher will review producers, consumers, herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, and decomposers.
- The teacher will provide drawing paper for each student.
- The learner will create an illustration of an organism without labeling the drawing.
- Each student will display his/her drawing to each other. Students will then remain standing beside their desk while the teacher gives one student the ball of yarn.
- Each student must toss the yarn to another organism that it will feed on. Students should create a giant food web in the classroom. Each student will realize the importance of each member of the web and how they are interconnected. If one is removed, the web will be destroyed.
- Students will summarize how the food web was created and how each organism depends on each other.
Assessment
The teacher will observe students in the classroom and how they created the web. Each student will summarize how the classroom web was created and how all organisms depend on each other for survival.
Supplemental information
The teacher can take a few pictures of the classroom web for bulletin board ideas. Student summaries can also be displayed.
Comments
This lesson is really fun and exciting. This activity has been used for the past several years with a lot of success.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
Science (2005)
Grade 6
- Goal 7: The learner will conduct investigations and use technologies and information systems to build an understanding of population dynamics.
- Objective 7.01: Describe ways in which organisms interact with each other and with non-living parts of the environment:
- Coexistence/Cooperation/Competition.
- Symbiosis.
- Mutual dependence.
- Objective 7.03: Explain how changes in habitat may affect organisms.
- Objective 7.01: Describe ways in which organisms interact with each other and with non-living parts of the environment:
