Kōkiri Lab
Kōkiri Lab

Ecosystem Health & Restoration · Week 2 of 9

Who eats whom?

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VOICE Question · Observe

Today's goal

Represent food webs with producers, consumers and decomposers; name relationships.

By the end

Food web with roles labelled.

What we'll do (60 minutes)

  1. Teach: producers, consumers, decomposers10 min
  2. Pattern-seeking across three food webs: count each role20 min
  3. Name predator–prey, mutualism and parasitism examples15 min
  4. If one species disappeared, what would change?10 min
  5. Place decomposition bags in leaf litter5 min

Need a hand?

Cut-out cards to arrange.

Want a challenge?

Explain why there are few top predators.

Try this week

Student worksheets for Ecosystem Health & Restoration (Word)