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This presentation uses bright colors and images to keep students engaged.
Vocabulary terms are bolded, making them easily identifiable.
Prerequisites
Students should already have a basic idea about food chains and food webs.
Students may be unfamiliar with some of the organisms mentioned as examples. Teachers may want to introduce these organisms ahead of time.
Differentiation & Implementation
Before beginning the presentation, teachers can provide students with 10 notecards. As teachers introduce new vocabulary words, they can pause for students to fill out one of the notecards. Students can also draw pictures to help them remember what the term means.
To make connections to climate change, teachers can explain how climate change is impacting species and making it so there are fewer of those species. Students can then discuss how ecosystems function to support all life on Earth.
This resource was designed to connect to the Sustainable Development Goals. Teachers can connect this to SDG 14, Life Below Water, and can also extend the lesson to talk about trophic interactions on land to connect to SDG 15, Life on Land.
As an extension, students may enjoy this hands-on activity to make connections between food webs and communities.
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