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Lesson 4: Gorongosa's Food Webs Lesson PlanLesson 4: Gorongosa's Food Webs Lesson Plan
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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9th - 12th
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Science
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1 hr
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Lesson 4: Gorongosa's Food Webs

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This Lesson 4: Gorongosa's Food Webs lesson plan also includes:
  • Building a Food Chain
  • Building a Food Web
  • Food Webs and Disturbances
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Who eats who in the savannas of Africa? Explore trophic levels with part four of an eight-part series of lessons focused around Gorongosa National Park. After young explorers identify animals using trailcam images, they construct a food chain, a food web, and then learn how disturbances in the ecosystem affect the relationships.

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Concepts

food chains, food webs, ecosystems, trophic levels, animal diets, africa, african animals, savanna, making observations, ecology

Additional Tags

science

Instructional Ideas

  • Have the class illustrate their food chains and food webs for a creative alternative
  • Ask pupils to identify other disturbances that could occur in the savanna and how they would affect animal populations

Classroom Considerations

  • Complete the lesson after pupils have practiced identifying animals in previous Gorongosa lessons

Pros

  • The resource progresses learners from creating food chains and webs to a closer examination of ecological relationships
  • Interactive is easy to use, and the documents are well-written

Cons

  • None

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