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An environmental group has hired your team to research the food chain of animals in a specific region of the world. You've been asked to create a comprehensive food chain simulation for the area by identifying different species of organisms and showing how they are interconnected. The environmental group needs you to identify each organism as being a producer, consumer, or decomposer.
In addition, the group just received a report that said their is a mysterious virus that has hit your country. It is attacking one of your living organisms in your food chain. You need to identify what animal is being affected and create an animation that show how this virus is affecting your food chain.
In your final presentation they would like you to create an interactive simulation that shows what would happen. The presentation will have to show the links between the species, and explain how environmental threats may affect the natural food web in the area.
Content Criteria:
I can show how energy flows or moves through a food web or food chain.
I can identify the roles, or jobs of sunlight, producers, consumers, and decomposers, in a community.
I can predict how changes in the environment would affect a community of living things.
I am an active and supportive member of my team.
Programming Criteria:
All animations are required to have one conditional block or broadcast block.
All animations must have at least one of these blocks to use in their animation: broadcast block, boolean expression, a second conditional block, variables.
All animations should use a Makey Makey ext and run their whole program off of one event. (Exceptions may be made if asked ahead of time.)
All animations must have a title that says their country and the word food chain.
All animations must identify their sources in their notes and write instructions if there are any.
All animations must show what would happen if a virus was to attack one of the organisms.
Homework:
You may do a diorama, posterboard, or 3d model of your food chain.
Your display must show all of the organisms in your food chain in the order of how energy flows through the food chain.
You need to label all of the different parts of the food chain.
Energy
Producer
Consumer
Decomposer
Scavenger
Carnivore
Herbivore
Science A to Z has some great one page info sheets on food chains from different environments.
I would refer back to the original 2017-2018 project for some of the other lessons that went with this.
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