Target Audience:

English Language Learners: 24 Latino students, 4 Vietnamese students. No students are US natives.

Title 1 high school: 90% free and reduced lunches

Food Chains and Food Webs

English language assistance: provide translated key words, reading assignments, and activities.

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Top Level Carnivore: Carnívoro del nivel superior

First Level Carnivore: Primer carnívoro del nivel

Herbivore: Herbívoro

Decomposer: Decomposer/

Descompóngase

Producer: Productor

Top Level Carnivore: -Loài ăn thịt mức Đỉnh

First Level Carnivore: Loài ăn thịt mức Đầu tiên

Herbivore: Động vật ăn cỏ

Decomposer: Thể phân hủy

Producer: Người sản xuất

Illinois Native Animals:

Red Tailed Hawk

Great Horned Owl

Leopard Frog

Grasshopper

Prairie Grass

Cadena alimentaria Chuỗi thức ăn

Web de alimentoMạng Thức ăn

Food Web

Halcón atado rojo

Gran buho de cuernos

Rana de leopardo

Saltamontes

Hierba de pradera

Chim ưng Có đuôi Đỏ

Con Cú Có sừng Lớn

ếch cự

con châu chấu

Cỏ Đồng cỏ

Students will each be assigned a specific animal.

They are to research that animal and answer three questions:

1. Where is that animal from?2. What does that animal eat?3. Does that animal have any predators? If so,

what?

Each group will get a list of all other organisms involved in our food web.

Mexico: Mexican Grey Wolf, Coyote,

Fox, Mule Deer, Opposum, Ocelot, Jaguar, Spider Monkey, Armadillo, Tapir, Quetzal, Flamingo, Hummingbird, Catfish, Tuna, Sardine, Tapir, Mexican Blonde Tarantula, Black Vulture, Mexican Mushroom, Mexican Bean Beetle, Tiger Rat Snake, Vine Snake, Mexican Red Knee Tarantula, Barred Owl, Crested Eagle, Rough-legged Hawk, Long Antennae Mexican Moth, Agave, Orchid, Purple Sage, Cactus, Pampas Grass, Oleander.

Vietnam: Yellow Macaque, Spotted

Deer, Asian Elephants, Lar Gibbon, Asiatic Black Bear, Green Sea Turtle, Reticulated Python, Rice Field Rat, Civet Cat, Vietnamese Pheasant, Tiger, Pot-Bellied Pig, Asian Vulture, Hog Badger, Red Billed Tropic Bird, Eared Grebe, Great Frigatebird, Osprey, Lesser Fish Eagle, Amur Falcon, Grey Headed Parakeet, Matapa aria (Butterfly), Two Striped Jumping Spider, Vietnamese Moth, Elephant Grass, Vietnamese Mushroom, Rice, Orchid.

I will tell students what level their organism is on:

ie. Top level carnivore, producer, etc.

Students will have one class period to complete their research.

The students with Top Level Carnivores will be given a ball of yarn.

Each student will have a card with the name of their organism written. The student who begins has to hand the ball of yarn to their “prey.” The original predator must keep hold of the yarn, and just pass the ball. The yarn will be passed from organism to organism based on what they eat. When one organism is eaten by more than one predator, new balls of yarn will be introduced. This will lead to certain organisms holding more than one piece of yarn.

Mexican Vine

Snake

Crested Eagle

Mexican Blonde

Tarantula

Pampas Grass

Orchid

Mexican Grey Wolf

Barred Owl

Mule Deer

Spider Monkey

Long Antennae Mexican

Moth

Tapir

Ocelot

Jaguar

Puple Sage

Spotted DeerAsian

Elephant

Tiger

BambooElephant Grass

Orchid

Reticulated Python Osprey Amur

Falcon

Rice Field Rat

Vietnamese Moth

Civet Cat

Rice

Pot Bellied

Pig

Interdependence!

Anyone get eaten by more than one predator?

Anyone eat more than one organism?

Recognize from home?

Share stories!

Humans?

Assessment will be based on completion of in

class activity and homework.Take home assignment: construct a food web

based on animals/plants from their country of origin.

They are to include at least 2 top level carnivores, 4 first level carnivores (omnivores acceptable), 3 herbivores, and 3 producers.

Desert Biomehttp://www.enchante

dlearning.com/biomes/desert/desert.shtml

Mexican Red Knee Tarantula

Rainforest Biomehttp://www.enchante

dlearning.com/subjects/rainforest/animals/Rfbiomeanimals.shtml

Civet Cat

This assignment was designed to allow students to recognize and understand food webs based on animals from their country of origin.

When a student can recognize an organism from home, they are more likely to feel some connection to the material being taught!