{"id":1724,"date":"2009-09-12T19:18:23","date_gmt":"2009-09-13T00:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/1724"},"modified":"2009-09-12T19:18:23","modified_gmt":"2009-09-13T00:18:23","slug":"teaching-food-chains-with-childrens-literature-what-are-food-chains-and-webs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2009\/09\/12\/teaching-food-chains-with-childrens-literature-what-are-food-chains-and-webs\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Food Chains with Children&#8217;s Literature: What are Food Chains and Webs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2009\/09\/foodchainswebs.jpg\" title=\"foodchainswebs.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2009\/09\/foodchainswebs.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"foodchainswebs.jpg\" \/>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ISBN=0865058768\/sciencebooksfilmA\/\">What are Food Chains and Webs<\/a>, written by Bobbie Kalman and Jacqueline Langile, is a kid friendly book that explores food chains using illustrations and actual photographs from the wild.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The book begins by defining what a &#8220;food chain&#8221; is and what makes up an energy pyramid. From there the book dives into each category of the pyramid explaining what a producer is, herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, and decomposers. The back of the book focuses on the second topic &#8220;food webs&#8221;. It explores what a forest wood web would look like along with coral reef, arctic, and savannah. The conclusion of the book gives teachers ideas for games that children can play in the classroom to help them understand what a food chain is and how it works.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong>Curriculum Connections<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>What are Food Chains and Webs?<\/em>\u00a0could be used as an introduction tool for learning about food chains. This book can be used for SOL:<\/p>\n<p><em>3.5 a,b,c<\/em>&#8211; investigate and understand the organisms in aquatic and terrestrial food chains.\u00a0Key\u00a0concepts include: producers, consumers, decomposers, herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, predator, and prey.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www-bths.stjohns.k12.fl.us\/teachers\/davisj2\/Food%20Chains%20and%20Webs.doc\">Food Chains and Webs, Whats for dinner?: <\/a>Provides teachers with background information on food chains and webs. There are also ready-made printable worksheets that include: completing the food chain, read and response, multiple choice questions, and vocabulary matching.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biologycorner.com\/worksheets\/foodweb.htm\">Biology Corner<\/a>: A worksheet where students identify animals as producers, herbivores, etc and they also get to create their own food web.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bogglesworldesl.com\/foodchain_flashcards.htm\">Food Chain Flash cards:<\/a> This site provides you with printable flashcards for animals in the categories of carnivores, herbivores, omnivores, insectivores, predators, scavengers, cleaners, parasites, and filter feeders.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Book:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ISBN=0865058768\/sciencebooksfilmA\/\">What are Food Chains and Webs?<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Author:<\/strong>\u00a0Bobbie Kalman and Jacqueline Langile<br \/>\n<strong>Illustrator:<\/strong> Barbara Bedell<br \/>\n<strong>Publisher:<\/strong>\u00a0Crabtree Publishing Company<br \/>\n<strong>Publication Date:<\/strong>\u00a0May 1998<br \/>\n<strong>Pages:<\/strong>\u00a032 pages<br \/>\n<strong>Grade Range:<\/strong>\u00a03-5<br \/>\n<strong>ISBN:<\/strong>\u00a0978-0865058767<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What are Food Chains and Webs, written by Bobbie Kalman &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2009\/09\/12\/teaching-food-chains-with-childrens-literature-what-are-food-chains-and-webs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4424,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,758],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-life-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4424"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}