What would happen to your food web if the population of great blue heron was to double. Challenge the students to create a food web using at least 10 of the critter cards the three with stars must be used. Teacher will give students a set of word cards with definitions from vocabulary az to sort in small groups. Building a classroom food web the exploring nature. Food web lesson outline lower columbia estuary partnership. Food pyramid the flow of energy up through food chain trophic levels, from. Pond water pond water webwebweb lesson plan lesson. Many common animals which could be included in the food web above have been omitted in the interests of simplicity.
Or how humans can change the health of a lake or a pond. It takes a lot of energy and a lot of organisms at the bottom of a food chain to support a few organisms at the top. Other factors that influence the pond food web include the availability of oxygen and the temperature of the water. As a result of this lesson, students will become familiar with common organisms found in a pond and discover their importance in a balanced aquatic habitat as they create food webs. Design a food web and answer some questions from the following information. Along the way, they learn how plants, insects, and animals are all connected in the ecosystem.
Going through the quiz and worksheet is a great way to see what you know about pond food chains. You can hand this out to your students or have them research their own species feeding habits to make this activity an interdisciplinary. Sometimes people can eat fish and plants from ponds, too. As you have learned, a food web is a more accurate depiction of how energy moves through a community of organisms. A menace to the west teacher lesson plan pond food web organisms organism trophic level what they eat what eats them 1 dead matter 1 everything on food web 2 lily pads 1 photosynthesis frog, salamander, minnow 3 algae 1 photosynthesis worm, water skimmer, salamander, shrimp 4 kelp 1 photosynthesis. Ask the students to draw a food web of the pond based on their observations. This is a good activity to use when teaching food chains and the food web.
If they were all included, the number of links in the foodweb would make it impossible to follow. After this, save your sheet one more time and print it out. For example, if the students studied a damselfly nymph, a food chain might include. Comparison work with another habitat such as the woodland. Lake and pond food webs in action by paul fleisher. Play pond food chain or food web games to enable children to appreciate the importance of invertebrates. Discuss the different organisms found in a food web producers, consumers, and decomposers. The torrens river starts in the adelaide hills as several small creeks which join to.
Aa and b ba and e cb and d dc and e which two organisms are carnivores. Series of picture cards and an activity for creating a pond food web. Pond life 32 cards set the food web slideshow pond connections fact sheet student page science notebooks powerpoint slide show on pond food web found under procedure tab art supplies such as colored pencils and colored markers cameras are optional depending on actual visit to a pond where photographs can be taken. Most of their life is spent as larva in streams and ponds. Pond water pond water web webweb lesson plan lesson. Once you have printed the pond food web, your next task is to summarize in your own words, what is happening in your food web. The food chain in a pond sunlight provides energy for plants to grow. Students are instructed to drill a well with a straw and pump the well by sucking on the straw, as they watch the decline in the water. We would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us. Students learn about energy flow in food webs, including the roles of the sun, producers, consumers and decomposers in the energy cycle. Food chain food web teachercreated lesson plan common.
Students investigate the links between the sun, plants and animals, building their understanding of the web of nutrient dependency. There is a variety of additional links for more information about the food chain. If one animals source of food disappears such as from over fishing or hunting, many other animals in the food chain are impacted. Spark the interest of students of grade 2 through grade 7 with these meticulously designed food chain worksheets to interpret terrestrial, aquatic and forest food chains, comprehend food webs and flow of energy in the energy pyramids, get acquainted with frequently used terms in. Words include carnivore, omnivore, herbivore, producer, consumer, predator, prey, food chain, food web, organism, and scavenger. Categorization of organisms under each appropriate labels. New jersey marine science center consortium, education program lesson plans maine bureau of land. Highly eutrophic or polluted lakes can result from activities in the watershed that release plant nutrients. The student created 3 food chains but they do not interlock to create a food web. Provide copies of the life in a pond cards for each group. They will need to work together to figure a way to add additional cards to their food webs to meet this requirement. Frogs, minnows, snails, ducks, catfish, and muskrats are a few of the animals that make up a lake and pond food web. Activity 6 food web worksheet read through the text.
Have them imagine being a specific reptile or amphibian living in the pond. Ask students to imagine that they are animals in australias shark bay ecosystem. Aquatic insects are small invertebrates that depend upon aquatic systems for all or part of their lifecycles, either for living beneath the waters surface or skimming along the. Pond food chains and webs scientist in residence program. Kids are born with an innate curiosity and love for animals which leads them to question the food habits of animals. Have the groups separate their cards into the different categories and record the organisms on the student worksheet. An illustration of a food web, with lines drawn between predators and prey, creates a web of relationships. Food chain sort cut and paste producer, consumer, decomposer ecology i would use this activity to have students practice identifying organisms in the food web as as producer, consumer, or decomposer. An example of a common, linear aquatic food chain is. This food chain chart specifically illustrates the pond food chain and is accompanied by a fillintheblanks exercise to check comprehension. But do you know why mosquitoes, mold, water lilies, and bacteria are important too. Ponds are small bodies of still, or not moving, fresh water that are surrounded by land.
Once they have it developed, provide a large piece of construction paper and glue to create a display. What is the difference between a food web and a food chain. Students will create a food chain and web using the terrestrial and aquatic animals on the cards. This activity uses soda, ice cream, sprinkles, colored sugars, and food coloring to represent the layers of earth and aquifers under the surface. Plant and animal detritus is eaten by creatures who live in the mud at the bottom of the pond.
Farm pond ecosystems maintain the complex farm pond food chain by functioning as both predators and prey. This is a pond life food chain insert that focuses on producers pond plant life. Bold standards are the main standards addressed in this activity. Pass out randomly to groups to create their food chain mobile. Students can each be responsible for one part of the food web. Small insects and fish provide food for larger creatures. Food chain vocab cards this flash card set has vocabulary words and definitions for your unit on food chains. See lake and pond food webs in action in this fascinating book. Suggested grade level 2 5 estimated time 30 40 minutes objectives students will be able to. In fact, a food web may have many different food chains embedded in it.
Pond water pond water web webweb lesson plan lesson plan lesson plan purpose. Pond circle, song of the water boatman, or the like. It is extremely simplified, with many common animals left out. Arctic food web pond food web consumers are living things that need producers to be their food animals and people producers living things which take the non living matter from the environment plants decomposers living things which feed off of dead plants and animals bacteria, fungi. The graph below represents a change in event a that leads. Aquatic insects are small invertebrates that depend upon aquatic systems for all or part of their lifecycles, either for living beneath the waters surface or skimming along the top of the water. This is a great followup activity to accompany a pond life cycle nonfiction book i. These are the key vocabulary associated with the concept. Food webs and food chains worksheet 1 look at this food chain.
Discuss the interdependence of creatures that live in a pond. The research team can create a food web or food chain that includes the organism they studied. Learn to create food chains and understand that plants and creatures in a habitat are interdependent. They should lay the cards out on the table and determine how each one will fit into the food web.
Asian carp consume zooplankton, which many fishes typically feed on in their. T1 weaving the web overview students construct food webs to learn how food chains are interconnected. What would happen to your food web if the aquatic plants died out because of pollution. Food chains and food webs see nature observing nature. Follow the links on this page to find out the differences between food webs and food chains. Pond dipping is a fun and simple way for children to explore an aquatic habitat. This activity will focus on one of south carolinas many aquatic environments the pond habitat. Two of the herbivores represented in this food web are 24. A food web is the elaborate, interconnected feeding relationships of who eats whom in an ecosystem.
Food chains show only a single set of energy transfers, ignoring that many organisms obtain energy from many different sources, and in turn may provide energy to many different organisms. The students will use organism cards to build a pond food chain. Part of scholastic s mexican wild cats project, the build a food web online activity grades 48 challenges students to figure out who are the predators and who are their prey by matching them up. Students color and label two pond producers cattails and lily pads. The kids decipher the food chain and plug in the appropriate words.
Food web project rubric 5 points 4 points 3 points 2 points 0 points food web the student includes 3 food chains that create an interlocking food web. Collingwood neighbourhood elementary school, vancouver school district. Pond pollution learn about indicator species and find out which of the fresh water minibeast are indicators of clean water yr 6 see pond survey sheet. We use your linkedin profile and activity data to personalize ads and to show you more relevant ads. Pond water pond water web webweb lesson plan lesson plan. They model a food web and create diagrams of food webs using their own drawings andor images from nature or wildlife magazines. Activity 25min pass out a set of food chain cards to each table or group of 34 students and a food web recording sheet to each student. The food chain in a pond virginia department of education. The pond has reached a mature stage of development.
From what they have seen, can the students surmise who are the predators and prey. Food web a more complex system of interlocking and independent food chains. The food chain is an example of how some animals may eat other animals or plants to survive. Fun fact adult flies hold their wings over themselves like a roof when resting. Have small groups work together to put the cards into the food chain order, emphasizing that it will be important to read the clues on each card. Explain that you will assign each student a role, and they will explore what happens when they interact with other animals in the food web. Do this on the student activity sheet in the space for question 7. When finished, allow time for the groups to compare their food webs and record their answers on the student worksheet. As an extension to this activity, children may add their own choices to their mobile andor construct a staggered mobile. You can hand this out to your students or have them research their own species feeding habits to make this activity an interdisciplinary with ela components. This food web includes producers, consumers, and decomposers. The pond pack royal borough of kensington and chelsea.
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