The Food Chain

National Standards for Grades 4-7

The Food Chain/Food Web Unit Kit facilitates spiraled and differentiated learning with stepped experiments and activities to teach both food chain (Grade 3 – 5) and food web (Grade 6 – 8) related topics. Demonstrates the intricate balance and relationships between different levels of the food chain and the importance of these levels to humans and our environment. Students observe live pond water food webs and soil habitat food chains, model the decomposition of plant matter, and design their own food chains and food webs.

Activities for Grade 3-5 with grade level specific vocabulary include: Food Chains on My Dinner Plate, Design Your Own Food Chain, Decomposition, and Who’s in Your Dirt? Activities for Grade 6-8 include Identifying Relationships in Food Chains, Forest Food Web Energy Levels, Design Your Own Food Web, Who’s in Your Dirt? (Advanced), Decomposition Experiment (Advanced), Pond Water Food Web (Trophic Levels), Energy Pyramids & Energy Flow, and Identifying Symbiotic Relationships in Food Webs. Includes an eleven day sample lesson plan for grade 3-5, a seventeen day sample lesson plan for grade 6-8, games, cross curricular activities, art projects, organism identification charts, ecosystem keys, reproducible experiments, instructions, assessment materials, answer keys and extension activities to support the units.

Required but not included: outdoor soil, turnip, a locally obtained water sample, and moldy food. Microscopes recommended. Designed for 24 students working in groups of four.

Sh. wt. 3lbs, DIM 13” x 12” x 5”