Week 5-6: Investigating Marine Reserves

Hand-in-sheet

Learning Intentions

Students are learning to:

Understand how different animals feed and how they interact with each other.

Success Criteria

Students can:

Describe feeding behaviours and relationships through constructing a food web.

Investigating Marine Ecosystems

Marine Ecosystems

Neptune's Necklace

Phytoplankton

Oysters & Barnacles

Limpets & Kina

Activity 1: Producers & Consumers

Read the texts above, independently or in pairs (only)
Locate and use the information in the texts to fill in the table above
Label your table with your initials and link to the hand-in-sheet

Cushion Stars & Mud Whelks

Crayfish, Lobster, Stingray

Butterfish

Food Webs in Marine Reserves

Activity 2: Food Web Presentation

For this activity, you may work independently or with one other person
Choose a New Zealand Marine Reserve habitat to study (habitats from last week)

Research the marine life in your chosen habitat - Think about the following prompts:

What marine life live in your chosen habitat?
Who are the producers and consumers in your chosen habitat?
Who eats who? Predators? Prey?

Using a medium of your choice, show the food web of your chosen habitat (different habitats will have different marine life & food webs)
If your Food Web is printable (poster, diagram, etc) make sure to share it with the teacher to be printed

otago062864.pdf

Science Learning Hub

Marine Food Webs

Young Ocean Explorers

Marine Habitat: Subtidal Zone

Example of a Subtidal Food Web

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