Day 5- Predator/Prey (Teacher's Guide)
Activate background knowledge by adding information to the class KWL chart
Team Activities:
Camouflage Challenge: The students will choose a camouflage to hunt or hide in different habitats in this interactive game.
M&M Survival Challenge (whole class team activity)
resource: http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project_ideas/Zoo_p012.shtml
Prep: First you will need to prepare six groups of "prey" by counting and placing equal numbers of M&M's into separate plastic baggies. Place 20 M&M's of each color into each baggie: 20 brown, 20 red, 20 yellow, 20 green, and 20 orange. There should be a total of 100 M&M's in each baggie. Prepare different "habitats" with six large pieces of paper in a series of different colors: white, blue, red, yellow, green, or brown. If you have small sheets of paper, you may want to tape together four sheets of paper to make one large piece for each color.
Direct students to work with their teammates on the handout for this M&M activity and then to the computers to finish the second team activity.
Team Activities:
Camouflage Challenge: The students will choose a camouflage to hunt or hide in different habitats in this interactive game.
M&M Survival Challenge (whole class team activity)
resource: http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project_ideas/Zoo_p012.shtml
Prep: First you will need to prepare six groups of "prey" by counting and placing equal numbers of M&M's into separate plastic baggies. Place 20 M&M's of each color into each baggie: 20 brown, 20 red, 20 yellow, 20 green, and 20 orange. There should be a total of 100 M&M's in each baggie. Prepare different "habitats" with six large pieces of paper in a series of different colors: white, blue, red, yellow, green, or brown. If you have small sheets of paper, you may want to tape together four sheets of paper to make one large piece for each color.
- Each team will select one teammate (the predator) to collect the M&M (clarify that all teammates will get to eat the ones that teammate gathers). Each member of the team gets a turn at each habitat! The predator will change each round!
- Explain the rules of the game to your predators:
"First, I will pour one bag of M&M's on a colored sheet of paper. Then I will set the timer for 10 seconds. When I say go, I will start the timer and all of you will pick up the M&M's until the timer beeps. You may only use two fingers to pick up the M&M's, and your other hand must be behind your back. When the timer beeps, stop collecting. I will count the number of M&M's of each color that are left. Then the next predator will repeat the activity for the rest of the colors of paper." - Put the first habitat down in the middle of your group of predators. Make sure everyone can reach the paper.
- Pour one of your bags of M&M's out onto the paper. Make sure that all of the M&M's are on the paper.
- Set your timer for 10 seconds.
- Say, Go! and start the timer. When the timer beeps, predators should stop collecting M&M's.
- Record the numbers of M&Ms left on a class chart (like the one on the worksheet for this activity below)
- Move on to the other "habitats" and repeat steps until all habitats have been tested.
Direct students to work with their teammates on the handout for this M&M activity and then to the computers to finish the second team activity.
mm_challenge.docx | |
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Individual Activities:
Sunny Meadows- The students will learn how predator and prey effect each other through this interactive simulation. The students pick how many fox, rabbits, and plants they include in the simulation.
Build a fish- The students will create their own fish to survive in the coral. They must choose attributes of their fish depending on if it is a predator or if it is prey.
Sunny Meadows- The students will learn how predator and prey effect each other through this interactive simulation. The students pick how many fox, rabbits, and plants they include in the simulation.
Build a fish- The students will create their own fish to survive in the coral. They must choose attributes of their fish depending on if it is a predator or if it is prey.
predator_ws.doc | |
File Size: | 28 kb |
File Type: | doc |