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Build a Food Web Game

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On the Who Eats Who Handout are all the species in a food web and what they eat. You can hand this out to your students or have them research their own species feeding habits to make this activity an interdisciplinary with ELA components. Students can each be responsible for one part of the food web.

To make this into a game…

Put a roll of tape on the back of each animal picture and stick them to a student’s desk.
Place the sun on the board and talk about how the sun supplies the energy for producers to grow. You can use the lecture from “ Food Web Lecture with Producer-Consumer-Decomposer Chart” to teach this lesson.
Call for all producers.
Call for all primary consumers or herbivores.
Call for all secondary consumers or omnivores.
Call for all tertiary consumers or carnivores.
Call for all decomposers.
When everyone has taped their species to the board, point out how the energy flows through a food web.
Leave your food web up for a few days and talk about different aspects of it, study the animals in more depth, talk about local food webs versus food webs on an African Savannah or Amazon Rainforest.
Print out food web graphics below (or in pdf) to use in your project.

Building A Classroom Food Web -- Who Eats Who

Producers

crops, berries, trees, grasses

Primary Consumers - Herbivores

mouse — grass, plants, mushrooms, berries, tree buds
deer — grass, plants, mushrooms, berries, crops, trees
grasshopper — grass, plants, berries, crops, trees
rabbit — grass, plants, mushrooms, berries, tree buds
chipmunk — grass, plants, mushrooms, berries, nuts and cones
squirrel — grass, plants, mushrooms, berries, nuts and cones

Secondary Consumers - Omnivores

bullfrog — grasshopper, earthworms, small fish
snake — mouse, grasshopper
raccoon — mushrooms, crops, mouse, bird eggs, berries, nuts and cones

Tertiary Consumers – Carnivores

weasel — mouse, grasshopper, rabbit, chipmunk. squirrel
bear — mushrooms, fish, berries, nuts, mouse, grasshopper, rabbit, chipmunk, squirrel
fox — bird eggs, berries, nuts, mouse, grasshopper, rabbit, chipmunk, squirrel
eagle — mouse, rabbit, chipmunk, squirrel, snake, small raccoon, baby weasel
hawk — mouse, rabbit, chipmunk, squirrel, snake, small raccoon, baby weasel
owl — mice, grasshopper, rabbit
mountain lion - mouse, rabbit, chipmunk, squirrel, snake, raccoon, weasel
coyote — mouse, rabbit, chipmunk, squirrel, snake, small raccoon, baby weasel
bobcat — mouse, rabbit, chipmunk, squirrel, snake, raccoon, weasel

Decomposers

Indian pipes — everything once they are dead
mushrooms — everything once they are dead

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