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=What's for Lunch?= What's on your lunch menu? Leaves, crickets, or pizza? It depends on what you are and where you live!

Our class will build food chains for five different areas: ponds, marshes, oceans, forests, and meadows. Let's find out what's on the menu.

Your Mission

 * Pick a Place**. Your group will explore one of the five different areas: ponds, marshes, oceans, forests, or meadows. Once you've found out about the location, you'll write a paragraph about this place as a group.

As a group, create a chart showing the producers, consumers, and decomposers that live in this location. What's prey and what's a predator?


 * Choose a Living Thing**. As a group, discuss the food chains that might be found in this place. Each member of the group should write a paragraph about a living thing in this chain. Reorder the paragraphs so they are in the sequence of the food chain.
 * You must include information about the living thing's life cycle and role in the food chain.
 * As a group, create a visual food chain to share. As an individual, create or choose a picture to represent your living thing.
 * You must cite at least three sources used to learn about the natural area or your living thing.

When you're ready to write, go to your class page and find your natural area.


 * Visit a Natural Area**. Make a virtual visit to another natural area in your class. Comment using the DISCUSSION tab. Write about what would happen if your living thing were to invade another natural area. Where might it be on the food chain?


 * Extension**. If you have time, create additional pages for a fictional natural area with fictional living things. How would the plants and animals interact?

//For the Teacher//

//Developed by Annette Lamb and the teachers at [|St. James Episcopal Day School].//