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WEBQUEST SUMMARY
Who Eats Whom?
5
Producers, Consumers, Decomposers, and Food Chains
Standard: Standard 3: Life and Environmental Sciences:
ORGANISMS AND THE ENVIRONMENT: Understand the
unity, diversity, and interrelationships of organisms, including
their relationship to cycles of matter and energy in the
environment
Benchmark: SC.5.3.1: Describe the cycle of energy among
producers, consumers, and decomposers
I can statement: I can describe how energy moves through a food
chain.
Students will create a poster displaying at least 5 food chains from
various ecosystems using 4-7 organisms.
45 minutes
Materials – If using a computer – familiarity with PowerPoint or
other draw software, as well as access t clipart.
If doing by hand - Poster paper (25 x 30”), markers, pictures,
scissors, ruler, glue
Skills – planning and organizing, critical thinking, questioning,
sequencing
Equipment (beside computer) – none
Vocabulary:
Hawaiian
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1. food chain = Ku'ina mea'ai
2. producer = ho'ohua (to produce)
3. consumer = ho'ohemu (to comsume)
4. decomposer = ho'omelu
5. herbivore = hamulau
6. carnivore = hamui'a
7. omnivore = hamu'ako'a
8. organism = meaola
You may want to give the poster as an out-of-class activity,
especially for students who tend to take longer than others.
Have students display posters and do a “gallery tour”
Answers for the General Background questions:
1. energy
2. food
3. the fox eats the rabbit/ the rabbit is eaten by the fox
4. mushrooms
5. any plant
6. herbivores, carnivores, omnivores
7. some examples are mushrooms, mold, bacteria, worms
When checking (see, rubric) the food chains be sure:
1. they all start with a producer and end with a decomposer
2. the consumers are in a logical order (like a mouse eating a cat!)