Vocabulary Words of the Week: producer, consumer, decomposer, food chain, herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, energy pyramid, food web.
This week we are learning about food chains and will be designing different food chains to gain further understanding of the concept.
Tuesday - Class discussion. No homework.
Wednesday - Continue class discussion on food chains. Categorize organisms into different groups of producers, consumer, and decomposers. Homework tonight - Food Chains worksheet, Activities 2 and 3 due tomorrow.
Thursday - Discuss energy pyramids and how energy is transferred from one organism to another. Continue constructing food chains.
Friday - Use knowledge of food chains to create food webs.
Please check your child's agenda each day for upcoming assignments.