Resource

Food Chain Fix

Download Food Chain Fix
  • Food Chain Fix Title
  • Food Chain Fix

Food Chain Fix

Tagged
Sustainability

Ages: 7-11
Standards alignment: ISTE 4a, ISTE 5a, 5-LS2-1, 5-PS3-1, 
Preparation time: 40 minutes
Teaching time: 1-2 class periods

In this lesson, students will explore the roles of organisms in a food chain while demonstrating their knowledge through designing a model in a game-like simulation. This food chain model will be developed to represent an example food chain and the interactions of food chain organisms as they exist in nature. This model will be generated in the free programming language and online community called Scratch™. Students will use computational thinking through recognizing the common roles and patterns found within food chains and generating a new food chain model based from their custom design.

Downloads:
FoodChain_MixedUp Download
FoodChain_Fixed Download

 

Available in Spanish

Download Food Chain Fix in Spanish

Spanish translations for the Smithsonian Science for Makerspaces challenges are made possible by a grant from the Smithsonian Women’s Committee.