What are ocean food chains (Primary) - Lesson One

Lesson 1 - What is a food chain?
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Social StudiesHistory+33rd,4th Grade

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Introduction

Lesson 1 – What is a food chain? This lesson covers what a food chain and food web are. Learning activities:  Explain in own words foods chains and webs.  Draw a food chain.  Research and discuss food chains.

Instructions


Time: 45 minutes

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Lesson 1 - What is a food chain?

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This lesson is provided by Sea Shepherd. Sea Shepherd was founded in 1977 and is a marine conservation organisation working to protect the oceans and marine wildlife. Sea Shepherd works globally on a range of issues impacting the oceans, running numerous direct action campaigns each year.
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Introduction to IUU fishing and the impact of overfishing.
What is a food chain?

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Ask students
“What is a food chain?”
Illegal Fishing
Illegal fishing means that the fishermen enter the territorial waters of a country or regulated marine zone without permission or without a license for the fish they intend to catch.

They are stealing from these waters.
WHAT IS A FOOD CHAIN?

a series of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food

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A food chain is ‘a series of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food.” An organism is an animal or plant. Like a fish or algae.
So, a food chain is number of animals that need the next one as a food source.
Over 100 million tons of fish caught each year.
Food chain

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Talk to students about the image of a food chain.
Over 100 million tons of fish caught each year.
What is a food web?

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“What is a food web?”
A chain is a series of animals that need each other. A web is a network of animals that depend on each other, so it is several food chains all connected together.

Over 100 million tons of fish caught each year.
Example food web

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Talk to students about the image of a food web.
Ask students to identify a food chain within the food web.
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LEARNING ACTIVITIES

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