September 12th - Class

Today we had a great discussion around the differences and similarities between a food web and food chain.  Students generated lists of organisms in different ecosystems around them.  They will use these lists to create food webs tonight around the below journal prompt.

Journal Entry:  Create a food web for another ecosystem that is nearby.  For example; forest, stream, backyard, saltmarsh, or beach.  You are encourage to choose an ecosystem that you are familiar with.  You should organize your food web so that relationships between organisms are demonstrated (like we did in class).

Vocabulary:
ecosystem        organism        producer        consumer       decomposer        food web


Below is an example of a food web and food chain.

Marine Food Chain

Arctic Food Web