Ecosystems: food chains, food webs and nutrients
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How energy passes along food chains and through a woodland food web, what happens when one population changes, and how nutrients cycle between living things, leaf litter and soil.
14 slides.
Lesson outline
- Hook
- Do Now — Retrieval
- Keywords for This Lesson
- A woodland food web
- The nutrient cycle in a woodland
- I Do: energy along a food chain
- Hinge Check
- We Do: follow an oak leaf
- Build a food web
- Explain: no decomposers
- Self-Check
- Homework
Unit bundleEcosystems and biomes
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