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The Fantastic Food Chain and Food Web Extravaganza
Published on July 30, 2009 by Savannah Hazelrigg
Description
GPS Scavenger Hunt
Grade Level
3rd grade - 5th grade
Lesson Objective
Students will understand the interrelatedness of organisms in a food chain, then forming a food web.
GLEs
Identify sunlight as the primary
source of energy plants use to
produce their own food
b. Classify populations of organisms
as producers or consumers by the
role they serve in the ecosystem
c. Sequence the flow of energy
through a food chain beginning
with the Sun
Depth of Knowledge
Level 2
Instructional Strategies
Scavenger Hunt, Evaluation Portion of a lesson
Time Needed
60 minutes
Materials
cardstock
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GPS Unit
Academic Vocabulary
Science
Lesson Plan
The Fantastic Food Chain and Food Web Extravaganza
The GPS Scavenger Hunt
By: Savannah Hazelrigg
Students will be engaged in a scavenger hunt to follow-up their discovery of the “What’s Eating You?” unit. Students will h
covered all subject matter in order to complete this scavenger hunt.
Grade: 5th beginning of the year: introduction to the GPS
Subject: Life Science- Food Chains and Food Webs
Teacher Overview:
• This will be a scavenger hunt around the playground of Sunny Pointe Elementary in the Blue Springs School district.
• Students should be put into 6 groups of 3 or 4 students and each group will be given a TEAM NAME.
*Lioness Lions
*Tall Trees
*Ziggy Zebras
*Beastly Bears
*Fantastic Foxes
*Handy Hawks
• Students will be given a clue in order to start the scavenger hunt. This will help them find their first waypoint.
• Once the students have figured out their first waypoint they will then need to click on “find”, then “waypoint” and scroll to f
letter that indicates the correct answer of the question.
• The GPS will then direct the students to the correct location to where they may find their next waypoint clue. • At each station there will be an envelope inside a plastic bag tied to the location. Inside the envelope the students will fin
correct team name on a small sheet. This will have their next clue.
• Each time the students will answer questions on the clue sheet in order to find their next waypoint letter.
• The final waypoint for all students will be at the doors in order to return to the classroom.
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Timeline and Relationship to larger unit: This activity should be done after the “What eating you?” unit. It will be part of
for students to think about vocabulary from the unit.
Location of proposed activity – identification of “unique” situations:: This will take place on the playground and court
area of sunny Pointe Elementary.
Troubleshooting problems: All places chosen have been looked at carefully. They are all part of the playground.
Need for assistance from other instructors/parents: I would plan to have an A+ tutor to help me out because this area
gated.
The Fantastic Food Chain and Food Web Extravaganza
The GPS Scavenger Hunt
By: Savannah Hazelrigg
Today you will be a part of a Scavenger Hunt lab that will review what we have learned in the “What’s Eating You?” lab.
We will be using a SPECIAL science tool that will help you navigate around our special place to find your next destination.
SPECIAL science tool is called a GPS. This system was created for people like you and I to navigate around the world to
more exact locations.
You will be put in a group of 2 or 3 friends that will be given a team name. Once you have your team name you will be give
first clue. You must ANSWER the question correctly in order to find your next waypoint. Once you have answered the que
you will then have to search for the waypoint on the GPS…
1. Click the highest button on the right of your GPS 3 times. This will take you to the main menu.
2. At the main menu, us the button on the front to scroll down to “find”, push the front button straight down to click.
3. This will take you to a new screen, you then need to use the same button to click on waypoints.
4. Once you have found all the waypoints, you will then need to scroll down to find the correct letter that answered your q
There will be an “SP” in front of every letter. (This stands for Sunny Pointe!)
5. You will repeat these steps until you have completed all 6 stops!
While you move from station to station, you need to fill out the GPS chart with the following…
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1. Current Waypoint
2. Elevation
3. Latitude
4. Longitude
You will be able to find these answers once you have arrived at each waypoint. You will hit the upper right hand button on
two times to get you to the information.
Group Name: ___________________________________________________
Answer to Question
Letter of the Correct Answer
Next Waypoint
Current Waypoint:
Elevation:
Latitude:
Longitude:
Current Waypoint:
Elevation:
Latitude:
Longitude:
Current Waypoint:
Elevation:
Latitude:
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Longitude:
Current Waypoint:
Elevation:
Latitude:
Longitude:
Current Waypoint:
Elevation:
Latitude:
Longitude:
Current Waypoint:
Elevation:
Latitude:
Longitude:
Current Waypoint:
Elevation:
Latitude:
Longitude:
Definitions:
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Omnivore: An animal that eats both plants and animals.
Prey: An animal that is hunted by other animals.
Carnivore: An animal that eats other animals for meat.
The Sun: Plants need this to produce their own food and energy.
Food Web: Many food chains linked together.
Heterotroph: An organism that gets its energy by eating other organisms.
Food Web: The sequence of who eats whom in a biological community.
Energy: Flows through the food chain partaking in the giving of life.
Arrows: Specify the flow of energy through a food chain.
Consumers: Consume the food produced by producers.
Producers: They produce their own food.
Extinct: A species that has died out.
Decomposers: An important part of the food chain that returns materials to the chain.
Ecology: The study of how living and nonliving things affect each other.
Endangered:A species that may disappear because there are so few.
Questions:
1. An animal that eats both plants and animals.
a. Omnivore
2. An animal that is hunted by other animals.
a. Prey
3. An animal that eats other animals/Meat.
a. Carnivore
4. Plants need this to produce their own food and energy.
a. The Sun
5. Many food chains linked together.
a. Food Web
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6. An organism that gets its energy by eating other organisms.
a. Heterotroph
7. The network of all the inter-related food chains in a biological community.
a. Food Web
8. The sequence of who eats whom in a biological community.
a. Food Chain
9. What travels through a food chain or web?
a. Energy
10. What is the ultimate energy for all life on Earth?
a. The Sun
11. What is used to indicate the flow to energy in a food chain or web?
a. Arrows
12. What happens to energy as we move from step to step in a chain or web?
a. Energy is transferred to the next organism
13. Animals that consume to eat are…
a. Consumers
14. Plants are known as _________ because they produce their own food using photosynthesis.
a. Producers
15. A species that has died out is…
a. Extinct
16. An important part of the food chain that returns materials to the chain.
a. Decomposers
17. The study of how living and nonliving things affect each other.
a. Ecology
18. A species that might disappear because there are so few left are…
a. Endangered
Team: Lioness Lions
Current Waypoint: First Stop…
To find your next waypoint answer the following:
1. An animal that eats both plants and animals.
a. Omnivore
b. Herbivore
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c. Predator
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Now, use the letter of your answer as y
next waypoint.
d. Prey
e. Heterotrophy
f. Extinct
Team: Lioness Lions
Current Waypoint: A
To find your next waypoint answer the following:
2. The network of all the inter-related food chains in a biological community. a. Omnivore
b. Food Chain
c. Community
Now, use the letter of your answer as y
next waypoint.
d. Ecosystem
e. Producers
f. Food Webs
Team: Lioness Lions
Current Waypoint: F
To find your next waypoint answer the following:
3. An animal that eats other animals/Meat.
a. Herbivore
b. Producer
Now, use the letter of your answer as y
next waypoint.
c. Omnivore
d. Carnivore
e. Prey
f. Consumers
Team: Lioness Lions
Current Waypoint: D
To find your next waypoint answer the following:
4. An important part of the food chain that returns materials to the chain.
a. Ecology
b. Decomposers
Now, use the letter of your answer as y
next waypoint.
c. Producers
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d. Consumers
e. Food Chain
f. Food Web
Team: Lioness Lions
Current Waypoint: B
To find your next waypoint answer the following:
5. What is used to indicate the flow to energy in a food chain or web?
a. The Sun
b. Energy
c. Arrows
Now, use the letter of your answer as y
next waypoint.
d. Cats
e. Animals
f. Heterotroph
Team: Lioness Lions
Current Waypoint: C
To find your next waypoint answer the following:
6. A species that might disappear because there are so few left are…
a. Extinct
b. Herbivores
Now, use the letter of your answer as y
next waypoint.
c. Carnivores
d. Omnivores
e. Endangered
f. Prey
Team: Lioness Lions
Current Waypoint: E
To find your next waypoint answer the following:
7. What is the ultimate energy for all life on Earth?
a. Carnivore
b. Omnivore
c. Prey
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d. Herbivore
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Now, use the letter of your answer as y
next waypoint.
e. Producers
f. Consumers
g. The Sun
Team: Beastly Bears
Current Waypoint: First Stop…
To find your next waypoint answer the following:
1. An organism that gets its energy by eating other organisms.
a. Omnivore
b. Heterotroph
Now, use the letter of your answer as y
next waypoint.
c. Herbivore
d. Carnivore
e. Prey
f. Predator
Team: Beastly Bears
Current Waypoint: B
To find your next waypoint answer the following:
2. What happens to energy as we move from step to step in a chain or web? a. It stops
b. Its dead
c. It moves down
Now, use the letter of your answer as y
next waypoint.
d. It smells bad
e. It moves up with the next organism
f. It comes to me
Team: Beastly Bears
Current Waypoint: E
To find your next waypoint answer the following:
3. An animal that eats both plants and animals.
a. Omnivore
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Now, use the letter of your answer as y
next waypoint.
c. Herbivore
d. Prey
e. Predator
f. Producer
Team: Beastly Bears
Current Waypoint: A
To find your next waypoint answer the following:
4. An animal that is hunted by other animals.
a. Predator
b. Producer
Now, use the letter of your answer as y
next waypoint.
c. Consumer
d. Prey
e. Omnivore
f. herbivore
Team: Beastly Bears
Current Waypoint: D
To find your next waypoint answer the following:
5. Many food chains linked together.
a. Food Chain
b. Extinct
Now, use the letter of your answer as y
next waypoint.
c. Food Tree
d. Plants
e. Food Web
f. Endangered
Team: Beastly Bears
Current Waypoint: F
To find your next waypoint answer the following:
6. Plants are known as _________ because they produce their own food
using photosynthesis.
a. Prey
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Now, use the letter of your answer as y
next waypoint.
c. Predators
d. Producers
e. Omnivores
f. Carnivores
Team: Beastly Bears
Current Waypoint: C
To find your next waypoint answer the following:
7. The study of how living and nonliving things affect each other.
a. Scientology
b. Physiology
Now, use the letter of your answer as y
next waypoint.
c. Biology
d. Chemistry
e. Psychology
f. Physics
g. Ecology
Team: Ziggy Zebras
Current Waypoint: First Stop…
To find your next waypoint answer the following:
1. An animal that is hunted by other animals.
a. Predator
b. Producer
Now, use the letter of your answer as y
next waypoint.
c. Prey
d. Omnivore
e. Extinct
f. Arrows
Team: Ziggy Zebras
Current Waypoint: C
To find your next waypoint answer the following:
2. A species that might disappear because there are so few left are…
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a. Predators
b. Producers
Now, use the letter of your answer as y
next waypoint.
c. Prey
d. Endangered
e. Prey
f. Small
Team: Ziggy Zebras
Current Waypoint: D
To find your next waypoint answer the following:
3. Plants need this to produce their own food and energy.
a. Predators
b. Sunlight
Now, use the letter of your answer as y
next waypoint.
c. Animals
d. Candy
e. Prey
f. Omnivores
Team: Ziggy Zebras
Current Waypoint: B
To find your next waypoint answer the following:
4. The sequence of who eats whom in a biological community.
a. Food Chain
b. Food Chain
Now, use the letter of your answer as y
next waypoint.
c. Predators
d. Prey
e. Omnivores
f. Carnivores
Team: Ziggy Zebras
Current Waypoint: A
To find your next waypoint answer the following:
5. Animals that consume to eat are…
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a. Prey
b. Predators
Now, use the letter of your answer as y
next waypoint.
c. Producers
d. Carnivores
e. Consumers
f. Omnivores
Team: Ziggy Zebras
Current Waypoint: E
To find your next waypoint answer the following:
6. What travels through a food chain or web?
a. Candy
b. Apples
Now, use the letter of your answer as y
next waypoint.
c. Class
d. Notes
e. Fun
f. Energy
Team: Ziggy Zebras
Current Waypoint: F
To find your next waypoint answer the following:
7. A species that has died out is…
a. Sad
b. Predator
Now, use the letter of your answer as y
next waypoint.
c. Herbivore
d. Omnivore
e. Carnivore
f. Endangered
g. Extinct
Team: Tall Trees
Current Waypoint: First Stop…
To find your next waypoint answer the following:
1. An animal that eats both plants and animals.
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a. Carnivore
b. Prey
Now, use the letter of your answer as y
next waypoint.
c. Herbivore
d. Omnivore
e. Predator
f. Producer
Team: Tall Trees
Current Waypoint: D
To find your next waypoint answer the following:
2. Plants need this to produce their own food and energy.
a. Water
b. Candy
Now, use the letter of your answer as y
next waypoint.
c. Sunlight
d. Producers
e. Prey
f. Carnivores
Team: Tall Trees
Current Waypoint: C
To find your next waypoint answer the following:
3. An organism that gets its energy by eating other organisms.
a. Autotroph
b. Producer
Now, use the letter of your answer as y
next waypoint.
c. Consumer
d. Omnivore
e. Heterotroph
f. Endangered
Team: Tall Trees
Current Waypoint: E
To find your next waypoint answer the following:
4. An important part of the food chain that returns materials to the chain.
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a. Producer
b. Consumer
Now, use the letter of your answer as y
next waypoint.
c. Omnivore
d. Herbivore
e. Carnivore
f. Decomposer
Team: Tall Trees
Current Waypoint: F
To find your next waypoint answer the following:
5. The study of how living and nonliving things affect each other.
a. Ecology
Now, use the letter of your answer as y
next waypoint.
b. Physiology
c. Biology
d. Life
e. Chemistry
f. Physics
Team: Tall Trees
Current Waypoint: A
To find your next waypoint answer the following:
6. A species that might disappear because there are so few left are…
a. Extinct
b. Endangered
Now, use the letter of your answer as y
next waypoint.
c. Omnivores
d. Producers
e. Consumers
f. Herbivores
Team: Tall Trees
Current Waypoint: B
To find your next waypoint answer the following:
7. What is the ultimate energy for all life on Earth?
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a. Humans
b. Candy
Now, use the letter of your answer as y
next waypoint.
c. Food
d. Energy
e. Animals
f. Water
g. The Sun
Team: Fantastic Foxes
Current Waypoint: First Stop…
To find your next waypoint answer the following:
1. An animal that eats other animals/Meat is
a. Omnivore
Now, use the letter of your answer as y
next waypoint.
b. Herbivore
c. Prey
d. Predator
e. Carnivore
f. Endangered
Team: Fantastic Foxes
Current Waypoint: E
To find your next waypoint answer the following:
2. The sequence of who eats whom in a biological community.
a. Food web
b. Food chain
Now, use the letter of your answer as y
next waypoint.
c. Food community
d. Population
e. Group
Team: Fantastic Foxes
Current Waypoint: B
To find your next waypoint answer the following:
3. Plants are known as _________ because they produce their own food
using photosynthesis.
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a. Consumers
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Now, use the letter of your answer as y
next waypoint.
b. Predators
c. Prey
d. Omnivores
e. Extinct
f. Producers
Team: Fantastic Foxes
Current Waypoint: F
To find your next waypoint answer the following:
4. An animal that is hunted by other animals.
a. Predator
b. Producers
Now, use the letter of your answer as y
next waypoint.
c. Prey
d. Consumer
e. Extinct
f. Endangered
Team: Fantastic Foxes
Current Waypoint: C
To find your next waypoint answer the following:
5. What travels through a food chain or web?
a. Candy
b. Stores
Now, use the letter of your answer as y
next waypoint.
c. Water
d. Energy
e. Fun
f. Rocks
Team: Fantastic Foxes
Current Waypoint: D
To find your next waypoint answer the following:
6. An organism that gets its energy by eating other organisms.
a. Heterotroph
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Now, use the letter of your answer as y
next waypoint.
c. Carnivore
d. Autotroph
e. Herbivore
f. Predator
Team: Fantastic Foxes
Current Waypoint: A
To find your next waypoint answer the following:
7. A species that has died out is…
a. Endangered
b. Alive
Now, use the letter of your answer as y
next waypoint.
c. Omnivores
d. Carnivores
e. Predators
f. Prey
g. Extinct
Team: Handy Hawks
Current Waypoint: First Stop…
To find your next waypoint answer the following:
1. What is used to indicate the flow to energy in a food chain or web?
a. Rocks
b. Animals
Now, use the letter of your answer as y
next waypoint.
c. Families
d. Friends
e. Omnivores
f. Arrows
Team: Handy Hawks
Current Waypoint: F
To find your next waypoint answer the following:
2. Plants need this to produce their own food and energy.
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a. Sunlight
b. Candy
Now, use the letter of your answer as y
next waypoint.
c. Animals
d. Predators
e. Bumble bees
f. Rocks
Team: Handy Hawks
Current Waypoint: A
To find your next waypoint answer the following:
3. Many food chains linked together…
a. Omnivores
b. Animals
Now, use the letter of your answer as y
next waypoint.
c. Food web
d. Food chains
e. Herbivores
f. Producers
Team: Handy Hawks
Current Waypoint: C
To find your next waypoint answer the following:
4. A species that has died out is…
a. Alive
Now, use the letter of your answer as y
next waypoint.
b. Endangered
c. Decomposers
d. Omnivores
e. Extinct
f. Carnivores
Team: Handy Hawks
Current Waypoint: E
To find your next waypoint answer the following:
5. An animal that is hunted by other animals...
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a. Predators
b. Prey
Now, use the letter of your answer as y
next waypoint.
c. Omnivores
d. Carnivores
e. Producers
f. Consumers
Team: Handy Hawks
Current Waypoint: B
To find your next waypoint answer the following:
6. An animal that eats both plants and animals.
a. Carnivores
b. Producers
Now, use the letter of your answer as y
next waypoint.
c. Herbivores
d. Omnivores
e. Plants
f. Extinct
Team: Handy Hawks
Current Waypoint: D
To find your next waypoint answer the following:
7. The study of how living and nonliving things affect each other.
a. Physiology
b. Psychology
c. Biology
Now, use the letter of your answer as y
next waypoint.
d. Life
e. Fun
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f. Chemistry
g. Ecology
Sunny Pointe Elementary GPS Routes for the Playground
By Savannah Hazelrigg
Stop #1
Stop #2
Stop #3
Stop #4
Stop #5
Stop #6
Group #1
A
F
D
B
C
E
Group #2
B
E
A
D
F
C
Group #3
C
D
B
A
E
F
Group #4
D
C
E
F
A
B
Group #5
E
B
F
C
D
A
Group #6
F
A
C
E
B
D
Resources
None
Literature links
1
Text book link(s)
1
Key concepts: Food Chain Food Web carnivore omnivore herbivore Decomposer
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