The interrelationships between animals living in a given place form a complex web of connections. With live animals and mounted specimens, we will model the role of predators and prey in the food web and discuss the adaptations that make them successful at finding food and avoiding becoming food.
Animals and Food Webs
- Category: Food Webs
- Program Type: School
- Duration: 45 min.
- Environment: Indoors
- Location: SLNSC, On Location
- Ages: Grade 5
- Availability: Year-Round
Next Generation Science Standards Connections
- 5-PS3-1. Use models to describe that energy in animals’ food (used for body repair, growth, and motion and to maintain body warmth) was once energy from the sun.
- 5-LS1-1. Support an argument that plants get the materials they need for growth chiefly from air and water.
- 5-LS2-1. Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment.
- 5-ESS2-1: Earth’s Systems – Develop a model using an example to describe ways the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and/or atmosphere interact.
- 5-ESS2-2: Earth’s Systems – Describe and graph the amounts and percentages of water and fresh water in various reservoirs to provide evidence about the distribution of water on Earth.
- 5-ESS3-1: Earth and Human Activity – Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth’s resources and environment.