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6. Ask learners to explain the food chain based on what they
Useful Websites
See website
http://safoodwebs.
weebly.com/index.html
for the completed food
webs for each of the
ecosystems.
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have already learnt.
• Alert the learners that arrows point in the direction in
which the energy flows.
• Tell the learners that the grass gets its energy from the sun.
• The first organism is the producer, which is always a plant.
• All the other organisms in the food chain are consumers.
• Ask learners to identify the producer and consumers in
the food chain.
• Also, ask learners to identify the herbivore (Cricket) and
the carnivores (Lizard and Eagle), and the top predator
(the Eagle).
7. Learners now work in groups for the activity.
8. Hand out to each group a set of the biotic cards and a large
sheet of newsprint and prestik.
9. Groups arrange the cards to form a food web, linking cards
with arrows to show who is eating what or whom.
10. Each learner then completes the learner task sheet.
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