Format
1. Introduction of key vocabulary terms.
2. Students view specimens from our Wildlife Division and identify the food chains in which they belong.
3. Students use a worksheet to review key vocabulary.
4. Participants are shown images of some animals in our Perkins Wildlife Center being fed, and their positions in a food web are discussed.
5. Time is allowed for Q & A.
Objectives
Students will:
-Explore how plants and animals interact in a natural habitat
-Compare the roles of producers, herbivores, carnivores, omnivores and decomposers
within an ecosystem
-Investigate how animal populations are affected by food supply
-Discuss ways to mitigate the negative affects humans can have on an ecosystem
- Discuss how animals’ patterns of behavior relate to the ecosystem through adaptation, habitat preferences, migration, predator-prey relationships, hibernation and reproduction.
Standards Alignment
National Standards
Please see Ohio Content Standards below.
State Standards
Ohio
Science
Grade 3 Science: Life Science-Behavior, Growth and Changes
•Plants and animals have life cycles that are part of their adaptations for survival in their natural environments.
Grade 4 Science: Life Science-Earth’s Living History
•Changes in an organism’s environment are sometimes beneficial to its survival and sometimes harmful.
Grade 5 Science: Life Science-Interconnections within Ecosystems
•Organisms perform a variety of roles in an ecosystem.
•All of the processes that take place within organisms require energy.
Grade 7: Life Science – Cycles of Matter and Flow of Energy
Grade 8: Life Science – Species and Reproduction