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    The document provides an introduction to an elementary school unit meant to teach students about food chains. The unit builds on previous lessons where students learned about animal eating patterns, photosynthesis, and using electronic databases. The instructional sequence guides students from learning food chain terminology to creating their own food chain model. Key activities include a video on food chains, classifying organisms, researching herbivores and carnivores, a simulation game playing producers and consumers, and an online activity demonstrating interdependence in a food chain.

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    The document provides an introduction to an elementary school unit meant to teach students about food chains. The unit builds on previous lessons where students learned about animal eating patterns, photosynthesis, and using electronic databases. The instructional sequence guides students from learning food chain terminology to creating their own food chain model. Key activities include a video on food chains, classifying organisms, researching herbivores and carnivores, a simulation game playing producers and consumers, and an online activity demonstrating interdependence in a food chain.

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    The document provides an introduction to an elementary school unit meant to teach students about food chains. The unit builds on previous lessons where students learned about animal eating patterns, photosynthesis, and using electronic databases. The instructional sequence guides students from learning food chain terminology to creating their own food chain model. Key activities include a video on food chains, classifying organisms, researching herbivores and carnivores, a simulation game playing producers and consumers, and an online activity demonstrating interdependence in a food chain.

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    Food Chain Introduction 1

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    afiqaziz86
    The document provides an introduction to an elementary school unit meant to teach students about food chains. The unit builds on previous lessons where students learned about animal eating patterns, photosynthesis, and using electronic databases. The instructional sequence guides students from learning food chain terminology to creating their own food chain model. Key activities include a video on food chains, classifying organisms, researching herbivores and carnivores, a simulation game playing producers and consumers, and an online activity demonstrating interdependence in a food chain.

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    Introduction

    The goal of this elementary-level unit is that the student will understand the

    food chain. The unit functions as part of the broader fourth grade study of

    ecosystems in which the students have constructed an eco-column. This allows

    them to observe a live ecosystem and, consequently, a food chain in action. The

    broader ecosystem study has already established prerequisite student knowledge

    and skills and provides common background knowledge for students at all socio-

    economic status levels. The students understand animal eating patterns, the

    importance of the sun to produce food, and the process of photosynthesis. The unit

    involves research on an electronic database. Students know how to conduct a

    keyword search and navigate the database to retrieve relevant articles.

    The instructional sequence guides students from an understanding of food

    chain terminology to the independent creation of a food chain. The unit begins with

    a video introduction to the concept of the food chain and basic terminology.

    Students then actively participate in a whole-group discussion to classify various

    organisms as producers, consumers, or decomposers. On Day Two a research

    activity allows students to apply search strategies and further define the term

    consumer as herbivore, carnivore, or omnivore. The function of each organism

    within a food chain is explored through a simulation game on Day Three, as the

    students role-play consumers, producers, and decomposers. An interactive, online

    activity demonstrates the inter-dependence of organisms in a food chain on Day

    Four. To conclude the unit, students independently create a model of a food chain.

    Each lesson requires a sixty minute class period.

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