The Trophic Levels Practice (Auto-Grading) is an excellent assessment opportunity that allows students to display mastery of their ability to differentiate between organism trophic levels and the organism's ecological role in said trophic levels.

Students will display their understanding through a variety of auto-grading concept check exemplar food chain scenarios. Your students' understanding will be measured for you using the analytics embedded within Google Forms.

Directions, including optional class notes (free of charge), are available to both the educator and students at the beginning of the assignment as an additional tool. This is especially helpful to those students who may have been absent and missed introductory information on trophic levels in class. Student completion of this assignment averages at about 60 minutes for middle school students and 45 minutes for high school students.

This is an excellent assignment that gives students exposure to unique instances of energy flow moving through organisms of varying biomes on our planet. The assignment focuses on skill repetition, with difficulty incrementally increasing with each example to ensure students have a concrete understanding of trophic levels. The assignment is also a valuable tool for assessing content knowledge among MLL/EL cohort students with carefully selected assisting visuals. The auto-grading feature also makes this a great activity to provide as homework, leave for a substitute, or to provide you, the educator, with essential time to catch up on grading or provide one-on-one intervention with students. I appreciate your consideration in selecting this product for your classroom. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me! 

-Ryan from Slater Science