educore

Great introduction for food chains and roles of organisms. Touches on terms such as producers, consumers, and decomposers. Students are lead to 3 websites and required to write their thinking down as evidence.

My students love putting their knowledge to use in this fun wrap up activity on ecosystems. Working cooperatively, they create board games about various topics learned in our fifth grade life science unit. Combined with the idea of reducing and reusing waste, they get creative in bringing home materials from home. If you happen to have a document camera, we've also created short youtube videos demonstrating how to play the game.