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

By Kurt Oswald

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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

1. The teacher will review producers, consumers, herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, and decomposers.
2. The teacher will provide drawing paper for each student.
3. The learner will create an illustration of an organism without labeling the drawing.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.