Utah Food Web Champions
Transport your fourth graders to Utah’s deserts, forests, and wetlands, where they can experience firsthand the hierarchy of predators and prey.
Resources
- Music to represent the desert
- Music to represent the forest
- Music to represent the wetlands
Fine Art Standards
4TH GRADE UEN 2010 THEATER STANDARD 2, OBJECTIVE 1B: Use movement to stimulate imagination.
Integrated Standards
4TH GRADE SCIENCE STANDARD 5, OBJECTIVE 2C: Describe some of the interactions between animals and plants of a given environment (e.g., woodpecker eats insects that live on trees of a forest, brine shrimp of the Great Salt Lake eat algae and birds feed on brine shrimp).
Objectives
Students will use two movement activities to explore food webs in Utah:
- Students will play “Egg, Chicken, Dinosaur” using food webs found in Utah.
- Students will pantomime interactions between predators and prey in Utah environments.