Computer Lab Activities, Online Learning Activities
Build a Food Web: An Endangered Ecosystems Activity
This fun interactive activity challenges students to match common predators of a Mexican ecosystem with their prey.
- Grades: 3–5, 6–8, 9–12
Part of Scholastic’s Mexican Wild Cats project, the “Build a Food Web” online activity (grades 4–8) challenges students to figure out who are the predators and who are their prey by matching them up. Along the way, they learn how plants, insects, and animals are all connected in the ecosystem.
At the end, they can print a Food Web Certificate of Achievement!
Learning Objective
While participating in the “Build a Food Web” activity, students interact with a food web and gain an understanding of animal eating habits.
Related Resources
With this in-depth learning activity, students “travel” to a tropical dry forest in Mexico to join research teams in studying these carnivores.
- Subjects:Environmental Conservation and Preservation, Content Area Reading, Basic Needs of Living Things, Food Chain, Endangered Animals and Welfare, Habitats and Ecosystems, Mexico, Animal Survival and Adaptation, Predator and Prey Relationships, Wild Animals
