2.
Choose roles for the members of your group. Roles include:
RESEARCHERS
Use Internet
web sites to find information related to your team's food chain and read
the information to the team.
RECORDERS
Record
important information found to answer your team's questions.
INFORMATION
PROCESSORS
Enter
information onto a word processing application.
EDITORS
Edit and
revise food chain reports and projects.
ILLUSTRATORS
Create food
chain charts, drawings, and diagrams.
PRESENTERS
Share your group's findings with the other groups.
3. Now you and your group will begin to research
your chosen habitat's food chains and webs. From your research you will write a report of
information using a word processing program that answers the following questions:
This site will explain the basic facts about food chains.
B. Definitions
Find the definitions
for the following words and terms: energy, producer, consumer, carnivore, herbivore,
omnivore, predator, food web, prey, decomposers, habitat, community.
Use the following sites for definitions:
4.
Now that you have researched food chains, it's time to see if you can make
some food chains. Log onto the following sites and do the food chain
activities there.
5.
Create two food chains from your chosen habitat. Illustrate it using
KidPix. Use your habitat's resource page for the list of animals
that are native to this island. In your research you will find the
characteristics of the native animals. Read them carefully to find
out what your animal eats!
6. Your
team will now take all your information: your research, your
vocabulary definitions, your created food chains and illustrations, and
put it together to make a beautiful food chain book. Make sure each
topic goes on a new page. All illustrations should be annotated.
Remember the roles in your group. All books will be presented to the
class.
