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How A Food Web is Formed

Emily- This was a good involvement game to get the kids interested in food chains and food webs. It might be too indepth of a food chain to use in most classes in a small time period.

Susan- Interesting game idea. A definite clear understanding of how to play the game correctly would be necessary to help the students understand. Fun idea to work on food web.

Deb- the game was interesting although the directions were ambiguous. I would re-write them for the kids. Having them go further with string and clay would not be the ideal situation for time effectiveness. Ken's idea is a good one about removing an organism or two. Alvin - Place pictures on a white board and draw lines rather than use string. Another idea shared by Ken would be to remove an organism or two and have the students redraw the food web.

Jim-I personally didn't like this that much. I don't think the concept is sufficiently difficult to require a game.

Ken - Very similar to activities in the Inquiries in Science- What on Earth? book. As Alvin mentioned, it is good to have the students remove one or two organisms from the web and see how it effects the entire web. I usually try to avoifd the 'food chain' term since it is extremely rare to find a straight chain and not a web.