Energy Flow in Food Chains: Recycling and Decomposition Explained
Delve into the concept of energy flow in food chains, exploring whether it gets recycled like matter. Discover how decomposers play a crucial role in recycling energy for plant use. Engage in activities, challenges, and discussions to deepen your understanding of this ecological process.
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FOOD WEBS LESSON 6A What Happens to Energy in Food Chains? Is It Recycled? (Part 1)
Yesterdays Focus Question What happens to the matter that makes up wastes and dead organisms? Are you ready for a challenge to see how well you understand the ideas we explored about how decomposers recycle matter?
The Challenge! Use your organism posters (place mats) and linking cubes to show how decomposers recycle matter for plants to use again. Resources: 1. Our previous work with linking cubes and organism posters 2. The reading from last time: Rotting Is a Good Thing! 3. This word bank: Producers Recycle Consumers Matter Decomposers Food Carbon dioxide Water Minerals
Your Solutions for the Challenge Listen carefully as your classmates share their solutions for the challenge. Think about these questions and be ready to give each other feedback: What s good about this solution? How could this solution be improved?
Todays Focus Questions What happens to energy in food chains? Is it recycled?
What Happens to Energy in Food Chains? What do you already know about energy in food chains and what happens to it? Do you think it gets recycled like matter?
Scientists Ideas about Energy in Food Chains While reading the handout, keep today s focus questions in mind: What happens to energy in food chains? Is it recycled?
Review and Reflect on the Reading Go back and look at what you read. Highlight, underline, or circle sentences or diagrams that can help answer our focus questions: What happens to energy in food chains? Is it recycled?
Lets Summarize! Turn and Talk: Using ideas from today s reading, work with a partner to answer our first focus question: What happens to energy in food chains? Individuals: Write at least two sentences in your notebooks that answer this question. Use your own words!
Next Time In the next lesson, we ll continue exploring what happens to energy in food chains and talk about whether energy can be recycled. You ll also be challenged to use what you ve learned today!
