Food Web Game

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Purpose

To demonstrate the interactions and importance of the different parts of a food web.

Procedure

1. Generate a list of a variety of organisms (may be indigenous, may live in a particular biome, etc.).
2. Place these names on construction paper, etc. (may have students draw them)
3. Have students form a circle.
4. Start a ball of yarn with a producer.
5. Producer throws ball of yarn (while holding on to free end) to primary consumer.
6. Repeat throughout a simple food chain.
7. When a decomposer is reached, throw ball back to a producer.
8. Continue until a sufficient web is built.
9. Pull different levels of organisms (consumers, producers, decomposers) out one at a time to illustrate the effects one creature may have on a food web.

Food Web Bulletin Board

Follow the same basic principle, but place the cards/pictures on a bulletin board and have students build the web with yarn.