Constructing a food web 0 Overview Using this Resource Connecting to the Curriculum Marking Student Responses Working with Students Further Resources This task is about showing relationships in a food web. Question Change answer Here is some information about feeding links between several different animals and plants. sparrow → hawk grass → caterpillar rabbit → cat grass → rabbit gorse → beetle caterpillar → sparrow rabbit → hawk beetle → sparrow In the box below draw a food web showing all of the feeding links shown above. Here is some information about feeding links between several different animals and plants. sparrow → hawk grass → caterpillar rabbit → cat grass → rabbit gorse → beetle caterpillar → sparrow rabbit → hawk beetle → sparrow In the box below draw a food web showing all of the feeding links shown above. Task administration: This task can be completed with pencil and paper or online. Level: 5 Curriculum info: Science, Communicating in science, Living World Keywords: ecology, food webs Description of task: Using information about 'feeding links' between several different animals and plants students draw a food web to show all these links. Curriculum Links: Science capabilities The capabilities focus is brought about by the conversations you have and the questions you ask. Capability: Interpret representations This resource provides opportunities to discuss scientific conventions for representing feeding relationships (a food web). Science capability: Interpret representations (Tāhūrangi) Science capabilities: Interpret representations Making Better Sense: Food Chains Answers/responses: Y11 (03/1998) Any food web which correctly shows pattern, e.g., difficult 2 correct – moderate 1 correct – easy Diagnostic and formative information: Analysis of Responses for use of arrows Arrows correctly used – 34%. Arrows used, pointing the wrong way – 27%. Didn't use arrows, e.g., used lines – 30% No response given – 9%. Feeding relationships in the Southern Ocean A garden food web A soil food web Cockles
