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Kevin Sarah Design 3 Population and Food Web Dynamics 1

This lesson plan aims to teach students about population dynamics in the Antarctic food web. The goals are for students to understand that an organism's size does not determine its place in the food web and to understand how bottom-up population dynamics work through exploring the Antarctic food web. The agenda includes students designing their own food web based on organism size alone, redesigning it with more information, modeling how melting sea ice would affect the food web using Jenga pieces, and explaining the importance of Antarctic krill to the entire food web.

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Kevin Sarah Design 3 Population and Food Web Dynamics 1

This lesson plan aims to teach students about population dynamics in the Antarctic food web. The goals are for students to understand that an organism's size does not determine its place in the food web and to understand how bottom-up population dynamics work through exploring the Antarctic food web. The agenda includes students designing their own food web based on organism size alone, redesigning it with more information, modeling how melting sea ice would affect the food web using Jenga pieces, and explaining the importance of Antarctic krill to the entire food web.

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Population and Food Web

Dynamics of Antarctica

Goals and Objectives


Goals:
1. Students will understand a basic antarctic food web
2. Students will understand that size of an organism is not what determines their
place on a food web
3. Students will understand the importance of bottom up population dynamics
through exploration of a food web.
Objectives:
1. Using only the size of each organism, students will design their own food web.
2. After learning more about the organisms students will discover that size does not
determine their place on the web.
3. Using a global warming scenario & a Jenga tower, students will discover the
importance of bottom up population dynamics.

Agenda
1. Do Now - 5 min
2. Video - 4 min
3. Challenge 1 - 15 min
a. Challenge 1b - 5-10 min
4. Challenge 2/ discussion - 15 min
5. Exit ticket - 5 min

Do Now: Watch this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3RElQWsh34

- The animals below are all members of a Vermont


Ecosystem.
- Rank the animals from least important to most
important to the ecosystem.

CHALLENGE Part 1
Using the organism information cards, design a food web using the following
organisms:
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
7)
8)

Phytoplankton
Antarctic Krill
Squid
Emperor Penguin
Leopard Seal
Orca
Albatross
Blue Whale

Challenge Part 1b:


Here is a little bit more information about each of the organisms in your food web.
With the new information on your cards, redesign your food web.

Challenge 2: Jenga!
The Southern Oceans temperatures are rising
due to global warming. As a result, the sea ice
in Antarctica is melting. The Antarctic Krill
uses the sea ice for feeding on phytoplankton,
reproduction, and shelter from predators.
CHALLENGE QUESTION:
If all the sea ice melts and the krill lose their habitat, which species will suffer:
a. Krill
b. Squid, Blue Whale & Emperor Penguin
c. Leopard Seal, Albatross & Orca
d. All of the animals in the food web

Challenge 2: Use 54 Jenga pieces to create a model that


demonstrates your answer to the previous question.

If all the sea ice melts and the krill lose their
habitat, which species will suffer:
a. Krill
b. Squid, Blue Whale & Emperor Penguin
c. Leopard Seal, Albatross & Orca
d. All of the animals in the food web

- Draw a diagram of your model.


- Label the parts of your diagram that
represent the real parts of the Antarctic
food web.
- Be prepared to share your model and
diagram to the class.
- INDIVIDUALLY write a paragraph that
describes the importance of antarctic krill
to the entire food web
- Bonus! include the Krills habitat in your
paragraph

Emperor Penguin
Weight: up to 88 lbs
Height: 3.6 - 4.3 ft

Squid
Length: Up to 20 cm

Phytoplankton
size: microscopic

Orca
Weight: 16,000 lbs
Length: 23 ft

Antarctic Krill
Weight: 2 gm
Length: 6 cm

Albatross
Weight: 22 lbs
Wingspan: 6.5-11 ft.

Blue Whale
Weight: 400,000 lbs
Length: 82-105 ft.

Leopard Seal
Weight: Up to 840 lbs
Length: 10-11.5 ft.

EXIT TICKET
Consider the following species that could be found in your backyard. Which of the
following species on this page would you consider to be the most important to the
stability of their food web?

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