Food Chain and Food Web Sites

January 11, 2012

A. Read the information on both of these websites:
http://www.sciencebob.com/lab/q-web-chain.html
http://library.thinkquest.org/11353/food.htm?tqskip=1

1. What is the difference between a food chain and a food web?

B. Read the website and answer the questions afterwards:
http://www.vtaide.com/png/foodchains.htm

Make sure you click on the link “interconnected food chains” so you can play and make a food web, too.

1. Why are there more herbivores than carnivores?
2. Why do most food chains have at most 4 or 5 links?

C. Answer all of the questions on “Identify the Food Chains”
Write the answers on a separate piece of paper.
http://www.cas.psu.edu/DOCS/WEBCOURSE/WETLAND/WET1/identify.html

D. Play all the games on
http://teacher.scholastic.com/ACTIVITIES/explorer/ecosystems/be_an_explorer/map/foodweb_play.htm

E. Do all 4 “Build your own food web” on
http://www.gould.edu.au/foodwebs/kids_web.htm

Thursday, January 5

January 5, 2012

By Mr. Jamesbarry

Good Afternoon,

5th Graders:

Please start with 10 minutes of MasterKey.
I then have a very short announcement about Boomin’ Beats.
Then well work on our next project: Explorers.

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4th Graders:

Please start with 10 minutes of MasterKey.
I’ll then introduce you to Animationish and our next project.

Wednesday, January 4

January 4, 2012

By Mr. Jamesbarry

Good Afternoon and Happy New Year!

I’m out today, but will be back tomorrow where I’ll be introducing to your our next big project.
For today:

5th Graders:
15 minutes of MasterKey. Drill only, no ParaTyper.
After typing you may work on either GarageBand or Animationish as we will be using both for our next project.

4th Grader:
15 minutes of MasterKey. Drill only, no ParaTyper.
After typing you may work on either GarageBand, SketchUp or Scratch.