Food Chain
Project/Assessment
Assigned: February 12, 2014
Project/In Class: Tuesday, February 18, 2014
On
Monday, in class, you will be making a food chain of not less than five
links that shows the flow of energy from the sun to the producers, consumers,
and decomposers. You may use any food
chain from any of the ecosystems that we studied in class (arctic, grassland,
desert, rainforest, other forests, and aquatic). You may NOT use one of the food chains found
in your text (pages 167-180) or one that we built using the online Shepherd
Software games found online. However,
you may use this game/link to see a sample chain if you are unsure about what
you will be building:
In
addition to the chain, you will be asked to write a one page paper that
describes the flow of energy in your chain.
Your paper should include important vocabulary words such as energy, predator, prey, photosynthesis, producer,
consumer, decomposer herbivore, carnivore, and omnivore. Your paper should describe clearly how the
energy is passed from the sun through each part of the chain.
Cards
for the chain, coloring materials, and paper clips will be provided in the
classroom. If you would like to use
other special materials, you are welcome to bring these to class. Although you are expected to do your
research for an animal food chain at home, all actual work for the project will
be done in the classroom.
Please
contact me if you have any questions. On
the back of this sheet you will find the grading rubric that will be used to
score your project.
Ms.
Coffman
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