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Web of Life Activity

Provided by: Children's Environmental Literacy Foundation |Published on: May 24, 2024

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Synopsis

In this activity, students will create two food webs to show how organisms and community members interact with each other in an ecosystem.
Students will learn how communities, animals, and plants are deeply interconnected.

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Subjects: Social Studies, Biology

Authors: Children's Environmental Literacy Foundation

Region: Global

Languages: English

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Positives

Kinesthetic learners will benefit from this hands-on activity.
This demonstration may help students work as a community in the classroom.

Additional Prerequisites

Students should know the expectations for participating in this activity, such as staying in the circle and holding tightly to their strings.
Students should know the term autotroph and should know, in general, what different animals eat. Students should also know that plants get their energy from the sun.

Differentiation

Teachers can have students model what happens when a species becomes endangered or extinct by having some students drop or cut their strings.
Students can research food webs in different ecosystems and create a model.
This activity would fit nicely in this lesson about ecosystems and food chains.
Teachers can use this activity before students do a group project to demonstrate their interdependence and need for teamwork.

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Children's Environmental Literacy Foundation

The Children's Environmental Literacy Foundation (CELF) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 2003 with the mission to make Education for Sustainability (EfS) an integral part of every child's K-12 learning experience. CELF engages educators, students and community leaders through award-winning programs that are designed to succeed in a wide range of education settings, including multi-day Summer Institutes, school professional development workshops, custom curriculum and instruction consulting, green career speaker series, and outdoor learning experiences. CELF's programs aim to help cultivate a society of global citizens with deep understanding of the dynamic interdependencies among human systems nested within natural systems, and the critical role education plays in cultivating healthy, equitable communities in a changing climate.

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