You Are What You Eat

Children trace the interdependency and cyclic nature of living things in the environment as they explore food chains and food webs.

1. A Full Plate Explore how energy transfer occurs throughout the food chain while conducting a survey of organisms inhabiting a square meter of an ecosystem.

2. Watch Your Back UExplore the predator/prey relationship found in food chains through a whole group game of predator vs. prey.

3. Oh, the Tangled Web We Weave! IExplore how living things depend on sunlight and each other to survive while making the connection when more than one food chain may connect to form a food web.

4. Ecosystem on a String UInvestigate how living things interact with their environment by exploring the interaction between living and non-living things in a small-scale ecosystem.