1. DO NOW Do you believe that humans were meant to eat meat and why?
Date:
2/27
Do you believe that humans were meant to eat meat and why?
Write at least ½ page
Include your full name and date on top of the paper

2. ESSENTIAL QUESTION:
How does energy flow in food chains and food webs?
OBJECTIVES:
-Review vocabulary using a card sort
-Identify our Target Vocabulary that we will work on this unit.

3. Predator/Prey Interactions
Cheetah and Gazelle Wolf and Buffalo

4. Vocabulary Card Sort
Work as a table Group to group the vocabulary Cards. Use the Shapes as a hint

5. Vocab Sheet pg
Use the highlighter to highlight words from the word sort that you don’t know.
Tape your vocab sheet to pg ____ in your notebook

6. Food Chain Dominoes
-Place the dominoes in order of what is consumed by something else -Place the dominoes upright and knock over the first domino

7. Food Chains and Food Webs
COPY THIS PICTURE ON PAGE _______ OF YOUR INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOK
AND COPY AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS UNDERNEATH YOUR PICTURE
What direction do the arrows travel? What do the arrows represent?
What do the dominos represent
How does energy flow in this food chain?
What is the primary source of ENERGY for this food chain?

8. DO NOW Give several examples of predators and their prey.
Date:
2/28
Q: What is the relationship between organisms in an ecosystem?
Give several examples of predators and their prey.
Be prepared to share.

9. ESSENTIAL QUESTION:
What is the relationship between organisms in an ecosystem?
OBJECTIVES:
-Give examples of predator/prey relationships
-Create a class food web w/ yarn and add the examples to our Target List

10. Animal Call Out
Give some examples of the organisms these animals eat….
-Sharks
-Lions
-Cows
-Snakes
Give some examples of organisms that eat the following
-Grass
-Insects
-Rabbits

11. Food Web Activity
Expectations: -Voice Level of 0 in the hallway -Everyone Participates -Listen when Voice Level of 0 is called Directions: -Find an organism that eats you, gently toss the yarn to that student to watch how energy flows in our food web.

12. Vocabulary Sheet
Add examples from the class food web to your vocabulary sheet in your notebook
EX:
EX: TREE

13. DO NOW What is a producer in a food web?
Date:
3/1 &
3/2
Q: What is the relationship between organisms in an ecosystem?
What is a producer in a food web?
Why are producers important for carnivores in a food web?

14. ESSENTIAL QUESTION:
What is the relationship between organisms in an ecosystem?
OBJECTIVES:
-Complete an ocean food web and identify the role each organism plays
-Create a Food web with your table group to test your understanding

15. Food Webs
Brainpop- Food Chains and Food Webs

16. Food Chains and Food Webs pg
Food Chain Activity -Use the Key to help fill in the Ocean Food Chain -Tape into pg _____ in notebooks

17. Which organisms are producers in the marine food web?
Analyzing our Food Web
CHOOSE THE CORRECT ANSWER, AND WRITE IT ON YOUR WHITE BOARD
DON’T LET ANYONE SEE YOUR ANSWER!!!!!
Which organisms are producers in the marine food web?
The Sun
Microscopic water fleas and copepods
phytoplankton

18. What do the arrows represent in a food web? What eats what. Directions
Analyzing our Food Web
What do the arrows represent in a food web?
What eats what.
Directions
The flow of energy through the ecosystem.

19. How do producers obtain their energy? The Sun Consuming herbivores
Analyzing our Food Web
How do producers obtain their energy?
The Sun
Consuming herbivores
Consuming carnivores
Chemosynthesis

20. If a large number of producers were destroyed by pollution then…
Analyzing our Food Web
If a large number of producers were destroyed by pollution then…
Carnivores would die because they would have fewer herbivores to eat.
Carnivore numbers would increase because they would have less competition.
There would be no effect on the carnivores.

21. Which organisms compete with the bluefish for a food source?
Analyzing our Food Web
Which organisms compete with the bluefish for a food source?
Red snapper
Shark
Mackerel
Grouper
Swordfish

22. Create a Food Web Determine what is eaten by what
Make sure the arrows are tracing the flow of energy and are facing the correct direction
Label all organisms:
Make sure all of the terms below are included
Include the Sun in your food web
-Producers Herbivores Decomposers
-Consumers Omnivores Autotrophs
-Predators Carnivores Heterotrophs
-Prey Scavengers

23. Food Web Contamination
What organisms on your food web would be affected if……………
Be prepared to share out!!

24. Pre-Ap Read your source of Food Web Contamination
Use the information to fill in your worksheet as a table group
Be prepared to share out!!

25. EXIT TICKET
USE the organisms to the Right to complete the “Freshwater” Chart Directions: Mark a check for each roll that the organisms plays In the food web.

26. DO NOW EXPLAIN THE ARROWS IN THIS FOOD CHAIN. Date: 3/3
Q: How does energy flow in a food web and food pyramid?
EXPLAIN THE ARROWS IN THIS FOOD CHAIN.

27. ESSENTIAL QUESTION:
How does energy flow in a food web and food pyramid?
OBJECTIVES:
-Relate food chains to the ENGERGY PYRAMIND

28. ENERGY PYRAMID
Brainpop: Energy Pyramid

29. 10% Rule 100 Units of Energy 10 Units of Energy 1 Unit of Energy
March 1st
2011
Mr. Martell
506
100 Units of Energy
10 Units of Energy
1 Unit of Energy
90% of the energy is lost each time it moves up a trophic level

30. Food Pyramid
Complete the food pyramid activity using page _____ in the Gateways book
Complete this on pg ____ in your notebook

31. EXIT TICKET
Where does energy come from in a food pyramid? Where does the energy go?