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Nature Journaling: Food Web Frenzy
Nature Journaling: Food Web Frenzy
Sometimes it's difficult to understand the connection between plants and animals. This is because we never truly see them interact, especially animals relying on other animals for food. Mapping out food webs is one way we can visually see how species are interconnected!
Step-by-step guide:
If you haven't seen this week's Nature in Your Neighborhood with Nate yet, be sure to check it out first!
Using your list of at least five organisms in your neighborhood, find pictures of those species from magazines or images you can print from the internet. Cut them out and glue or tape them onto a journal page. If you don't have pictures to use, it's perfectly awesome to draw them into your journal. I did that for a few species!
Label the pictures you put into your journal using the terms: decomposer, producer, primary consumer, secondary consumer, or tertiary consumer.
Draw lines connecting each species to the species they consume, whether it's a plant, animal, or both!
Post-activity questions:
Post-activity questions:
What would happen if one of these species was missing from the food web?
How do we as people influence food webs?
Challenge:
Challenge:
Did you find any animals that are no longer present in your area? What do you think happened to them?
My journal page!
My journal page!
I put the pictures on the page randomly. This kept the pressure off of trying to get the order right from the beginning. This also made it a fun challenge to figure out how to draw the lines between the species!
I didn't have a picture of a worm, so I drew it in, and I also forgot a picture of a tree, so I drew that one in too.
Share what YOU did! Take a picture of your journal page and send it to kgroen@duneslearningcenter.org! I would love to see what you journaled about and discovered!
Share what YOU did! Take a picture of your journal page and send it to kgroen@duneslearningcenter.org! I would love to see what you journaled about and discovered!
AND... here's a new coloring page for you to try!
AND... here's a new coloring page for you to try!
White-Tailed Deer Color Page.pdfWhite-tailed deer can be found throughout the Indiana Dunes National Park. They are herbivores, which makes them primary consumers in food chains and food webs.
In Episode 5 of The Search for Sandsquatch, Chief Naturalist Anthony finds a jaw bone that appears to belong to a deer. The jaw bone had flat teeth for grinding plants, which fits the deer's role as an herbivore and primary consumer.
Click here for the latest with Nate and "Fishing for Food Webs" on Nature in Your Neighborhood!
Click here for the latest episode of "The Search for Sandsquatch" with Chief Naturalist Anthony!
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