Food Webs and Food Chains- A Special WebQuest for Second Graders

Introduction:

What did you eat for dinner last night? What about for lunch? Do you know where your food comes from? You are a part of a food chain with everything you eat. We have to eat so that we are provided with the raw materials we need to help us to move, grow and stay healthy. And did you know that everything we eat can be traced back to the sun? For example, if you had eggs for ham for dinner, the ham comes from pig. The pig gets its energy by eating vegetables, and the vegetables get their energy from the sun.

Sun		Vegetables		Pig		You

By exploring some of these websites, you will learn all about food chains and food webs.

Challenge:

What you need to figure out, is just where the foods you eat come from and where you are in the food chain! You will need to trace the production of the meat, dairy, vegetables, or whatever else you have recently eaten. Use the links on this page to learn as much as you can about food chains and food webs. Once you have read about them, you will be able to create some food chains of your own on the websites below! Good luck!

Check out these awesome sites:

At this site, be sure to click on creating a possible food web and complete the Chain Reaction Activity

http://www.vtaide.com/png/foodchains.htm

At this site, study the colorful chart of a food chain!                                                          

http://www.planetpals.com/foodchain.html#chart

Try to figure out the order of some of these food webs

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/food/food_menu.html

To get even more information, use these key words with any of the following search engines:

food web, food chain, herbivore, carnivore, omnivore

http://www.google.com
http://www.yahoo.com/
http://www.altavista.com

Any questions or comments, email tiffany.anton@uvm.edu