College students in highschool biology research meals webs and trophic ranges. There is a bit more element than the fundamental meals chain they could have discovered in earlier grades. The subject is a part of Chapter 4: Ecosystems (Miller and Levine). I introduce the chapter with a phenomenon – poisonous algae blooms.

College students might wrestle with the ecological pyramids, which present the variety of organisms, power saved at every degree, and biomass. For my freshman, the idea of power movement is new, however they appear to know that there can solely be a number of prime predators in a system.

I created this easy meals chain and pyramid of numbers to strengthen these ideas. Lots of the meals internet actions had been too lengthy and designed for youthful college students. I merely needed my college students to observe figuring out major, secondary, and tertiary customers. I additionally needed them to give attention to how power flows by way of an ecosystem.

College students can even determine the herbivore, carnivores, and omnivores within the meals internet. The one omnivore proven is the chicken, which consumes each the plant and the caterpillar. The net fashions a forest (or grassland) ecosystem and consists of an eagle as an apex predator.

The ultimate query asks college students to design their very own meals internet, with a give attention to aquatic ecosystems. They’ll use the again of the web page, or a clean sheet of paper. I encourage my college students to make sketches, however they’ll additionally simply use phrases.

AI Photos for Different Tasks

This new worksheet is an replace from an older model.

I created the picture of the meals internet utilizing synthetic intelligence, an app known as Midjourney. AI has been an important instrument for reimagining among the pictures in outdated worksheets. You should utilize it in your personal tasks. The subscription for that one shouldn’t be free, however there are free alternate options on the market. I feel AI has numerous potential to automate many duties lecturers do as routine. Chat-GPT does a tremendous job making a lesson plan!