1. Food Web, Energy Flow, and Relationship by Numbers
Michael, Arielle, & Gene

2. Information Biology Ecology/Biodiversity:
How does energy flow through a diverse ecosystem?
How does the relationships between different organisms affect the flow of energy?

3. Lesson Overview Opening: What do you know & What do you need to know?
Work through a simple example of a food web as a class.

5. Table 1 Hawk Owl Fox Mouse Cricket Rabbit Caterpillar Deer Chipmunk
Brid
Mosquito
Spider 1
Bird
Tree
Grass

6. Lesson Overview Cont.
Provide a complex food web.

8. Table 1 Wild Hog Snakes Jaguars Alligators Monkey Sloth Bat Deer Frog
Toucan
Mice
Squirrel
Butterfly
Worm
Beetles
Fungi
Alligator 1
Toucans
Banana
Bushes
Grasses
Orchids
Snake

9. Assessment
Assign groups perform the same analysis of a food web in a biome of their choice.
Create and present their results.
Graded by a rubric.

10. Extension
javaBenzer
Overlap
Niches
10% rule