Food Chains
Pre K – K students will...
- Classify the characteristics of both living & non-living things.
- Sort a variety of animals based on their similarities, including where they live in the ocean – coral reefs, sandy bottoms, open ocean, etc.
- Compare the differences between sharks, stingrays, sea stars and puffer fish and sort them based on how they eat.
- Explore hands-on activities; including animal artifacts and touch tanks.
1st – 2nd Grade students will...
- Identify vocabulary words associated with food chains, and determine the producers, consumers, and decomposers within one.
- Explore the differences between a “food chain” and “food web” and examine how animals are interconnected within them.
- Compare adaptations that allow animals to survive and explain how these adaptations determine where an animal falls within the food chain/web.
- Explore hands-on activities; including animal artifacts and touch tanks.
3rd – 5th Grade students will...
- Identify the characteristics of a fish and provide evidence to prove whether or not a shark is a fish.
- Explore what and how sharks eat, and provide evidence that their feeding habits can be determined by examining the size, shape and texture of their teeth.
- Compare predator and prey relationships and explain how size plays a role.
- Discuss the relationship between humans and sharks ─ explore the threat that one poses to the other and the effects that shark extinction would have on the environment.
- Explore hands-on activities; including animal artifacts and touch tanks.
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