Frayer Models: developing concepts and vocab

Frayer Model:

Fill out a model (or some version of it) for each of these terms:
producer, consumer, decomposer, food chain, and food web.

You can make more models, use the pages from school, or invent some other organizer to show understanding of concepts. Have fun with it!! The idea is that you understand what the concepts are and how they can be used in models to help explain our world.
Use the link from the previous post to help you remember and find the words if you need to!!

Bonus terms:
Try to use these in your Frayer models: autotroph(ic), heterotroph(ic), herbivore, omnivore, carnivore.

Have fun!!
Feel free to post and respond to each other here!!

Food web fun

Food Chain Experiences;

The goal  of all of these experiences is to understand the flow of energy in an ecosystem and the role of various organisms. Later, we will introduce new species into an ecosystem (“virtually”) to see how invasive species can effect an ecosystem.

To assess your understanding throughout your experiences, you will fill out a Frayer model for each role.

You will also post to the blog,  highlighting the learning experiences from each station.

 

1.    On line sites: Food Chain game.

Go to this site: http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/games/foodchaingame.htm

 

Play the food chain game. You can play as many times as you need to in order to understand the flow of energy in an ecosystem.

 

You can then click on more advanced “bigger chains,” then work to play the decomposers/scavengers as well.

 

2.       Card game: Follow the directions on the table to choose a biome and create a food web. Be sure to show flow of energy using arrows. What do you notice about the numbers of organisms that fill each role?

 

3.       SMART lesson: Use the Smart Board as a guide to discussion different relationships in an ecosystem.