Have your students create a menu for the animals at the Bog. The menus should reflect the diet of specific animals that can be found at the Bog.
Example:
Pink Mouse Delight
Sun-baked pink mouse served as a main course on a delicious bed of prairie grass.
Toad a la Mode
A frothy creation of Bog Toad, smothered in creamy mouse sauce sure to please any gourmet massasauga rattler.
The students should choose to create menus geared specifically toward predators or herbivores. The dishes may be garnished with items found in the Bog that the animal does not necessarily eat, but the actual dish must be something the animal would consume.
What You Will Need:
- Construction paper for the cover
- Printable list of animal of the Bog
- Crayons or colored pencils
- White sheet of paper for menu insert
- Glue
Objectives:
- Understand the meaning of predator and prey.
- Identify the function of a food chain.
Ohio Science Outcomes:
- Grade 4 - #16 - Demonstrate an understanding of the basic needs of living things.
- Grade 6- #14 - Trace the transmission of energy in a small, simple ecosystem and/or identify roles of organisms in the energy movement of an ecosystem.
- Grade 9 - #13 - Trace the flow of energy and/or interrelationships of organisms in an ecosystem.
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