Transcript Food Chains - uheledsciencemethods

The Flow of Energy!
Food Chains and Food Webs
5th Grade Science
Objective
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SCI.5.5B – I can describe and explain some
interactions that occur in simple systems such
as energy transfers in food webs or food
chains.
Who are the players in the food
chain game?
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Make a list of the players on the left hand side of your
journals! Draw and label 3 examples of each
Producers
Consumers
Decomposers
How do YOU get energy?
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Take a minute to talk it over with your team!
BE READY TO SHARE!!!
Why do you need energy?
Take another minute to talk this over with your team!
BE READY TO SHARE!!!
FOOD & ENERGY
How do animals get energy?
Take out a post it and come up with
a one sentence answer with your
team!
You have 60 seconds!
Questions to Answer
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What is a food chain?
FOOD CHAINS
Questions to Answer
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What is a food web?
FOOD WEBS
Questions to Answer
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How does energy flow through a food chain?
energy flow through a food chain
It’s kind of like this…
Food Chains
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The path of energy from one organism to
another in an ecosystem.
Food Chain
Food Web
Overlapping food chains with different pathways for the flow
of energy in an ecosystem
Food Web
Food Web
What is missing in all of the food
webs and food chains?
Who does the sun give energy to?
What do the arrows represent?
*The arrow points to the organism doing the
eating (predator).
= ENERGY
What do decomposers do?
DECOMPOSERS
Let’s See what you learned!
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http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/ani
mals/kidscorner/games/foodchaingame.htm
Today’s Activity!
Today you are going to make a food
web of your own!
Instructions
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Look at the magazines and find pictures that you
would like to use for:
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The SUN
Producers
Consumers
Decomposers
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Paste the parts of the food web where they should go.
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Connect your food web together and use arrows to
show the direction of the flow of energy!
HOMEWORK – DUE MONDAY
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Finish up your food webs!
Complete your life cycle stories!
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Rough Draft
Final Copy
Labeled Diagram of the life cycle