Lisa Briggs
EDC448
Dr. Diane Kern
June 1, 2012
Food Webs Text Set
Guiding Questions
1. What are food webs?
2. How do food webs “work”?
3. Why do we need food webs?
Offline Texts
1. Biggs, Alton, Whitney C. Hagins, William C. Holliday, Chris J. Kapicka, Linda Lundgren, Ann
H. MacKenzie, William D. Rogers, Marion B. Sewer, Dinah Zike, and National
Geograghic. Biology . New York: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, 2007. Print.
This 1200 page high school biology text book is broken down into sections.
Each section is broken into three or four chapters. Each chapter contains key concepts, vocabulary and a summary at chapters and. Given the smaller sections that the chapters are broken into it is easy to assign small chunks so that students are not overwhelmed by the reading assignments.

2. Dupree, Joe. "The Most Important Fish In the Sea." National Wildlife (World Edition) Feb.-Mar.
2008: 38-45. Academic Search Complete . Web. 1 June 2012.
This eight page article that was printed in the World edition of the National Wildlife foundation magazine, it details the necessity of sharks in the food webs. It also tells that with the over fishing of sharks for shark-fin soup has led to a decrease in the scallop population in coastal
North Carolina.
This article is short enough to keep the learners interested, but challenging enough to require concentration.
3. Eisenberg, Cristina. The Wolf's Tooth: Keystone Predators, Trophic Cascades, and
Biodiversity . Washington: Island, 2010. Print.
This 252 page book though too long to be assigned in its entirety, it is a fine resource to read a chapter or two from to reinforce specific ideas about food webs. It is an in depth study of wolves and other top predators and their effects on trophic cascades.
Online Texts
4. "Food Chain: EnchantedLearning.com." Food Chain: EnchantedLearning.com
. Web. 01 June
2012. <http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/foodchain/>. This web site contains numerous projects and worksheets that can be used to reinforce learning of food webs.

5. Foodwebhead. "Food Web: Visualizing and Understanding Interdependence in Nature."
YouTube . YouTube, 08 Oct. 2008. Web. 01 June 2012.
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxYM-RgVqTI>.
This four minute video gives a brief overview of food webs and how they work. Suitable for grades from 9 th
and up this video is a good way to start a unit or review at the end of one.
6. "Gould League - Food Webs - Build Your Own." Gould League - Food Webs - Build Your Own .
01 Jan. 1999. Web. 01 June 2012. <http://www.gould.edu.au/foodwebs/kids_web.htm>.
This web site contains multiple downloadable exercises that will allow students to build their own food web.
7. Muskopf, Shannan. "Ecology Lesson Plans and Worksheets." The Biology Corner . Word Press,
2001. Web. 1 June 2012.
This web site I cite twice because it has two sections that have usable content. This section contains multiple worksheets that reinforce how food webs work and their importance in the world.
8. Muskopf, Shannan. "The Biology Corner." Ecology . Wordpress, 2001. Web. 01 June 2012.
<http://www.biologycorner.com/lesson-plans/ecology/>.
This is the second citation for this cite. This one is for a project that has students building a mobile. This activity is perhaps a bit young for high school students, however for a struggling learner or one reading below grade level this would be a good review.
9.Unknown. "Food Web." Food Web . Center For Biodiversity and Convservation. Web. 01 June
2012. <http://cbc.amnh.org/crisis/foodweb.html>.
This web page briefly describes the place of sea otters in the food web of the pacific ocean.

10. YouTube . Dir. Shamithgowda. YouTube . YouTube, 28 July 2010. Web. 01 June 2012.
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v1tyqa4sxQ>.
This five minute video is a good introduction or review for a unit on food webs.