Using the school's media center or a video camera from home, make a mini documentary about your ecosystem's food chain. Team members can serve as documentary writers, prop designers, narrators, camera operators, and other typical pre and postproduction tasks. Contact your local cable television station to arrange for broadcast. Assessment Recommendations Evaluate your students on their ability to work together in teams to observe, document, and present the changes that occurred to their fruit shish kebabs. Evaluate the writing and content of each student's journal entries for this lesson and activity.
Science Knows about the diversity and unity that characterize life.
Understands how species depend on one another and on the environment for survival. Knows that all individuals of a species that occur together at a given place and time are a population, and all populations living together and the physical factors with which they interact compose an ecosystem. Knows relationships that exist among organisms in food chains and food webs. Understands the cycle of matter and flow of energies through the living environment. Develop an understanding of structure and function in living systems.