3.+Process

__** TASK 1 **__

** Your task today is, to divide yourselves into groups of five. Since there are exactly 30 of you in the class, this should be simple. This means 6 groups. No more and no less. ** ** The next step is to choose one of the following areas from which you will choose your food chain that you will study. ** 1. Desert ** 2. Arctic ** ** 3. African Safari ** **  4. Amazon Jungle ** ** 5. Australian Outback ** ** 6. African Riverbank ** ** 7. Ocean. ** ** Check this with your teacher as to whether the area that you have chosen has not yet been taken by another group. There are to be no overlaps in any areas. There are enough areas available for people to have at least some choice. **

** After you have chosen your environment, you must decide upon a food chain that you will research and then later present to the class. ** ** The example displayed above is a food chain that you might find in many grasslands. Your task is to find a chain, containing about five or six members, which matches your chosen environment as best as you can. Once you have done this, quickly check with your teacher to make sure that this chain is appropriate. **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">** You DO NOT want to choose a food chain that does not live in the environment that you have. **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">** Once you have checked with your teacher, divide the food chain amongst your group so that each person has one member from the food chain. ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">** For the rest of this lesson you must research that member to find out as much as you can about their dietary habits and identify what predators they might have. ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">** Look at what would happen to the food chain that your group is working on if, for some unknown reason your particular member suddenly disapeared. What would happen to the members that come before your members, if there are any, and those that prey on your member, again if there are any. **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">** __Task 2__ ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">** Now, for this lesson you are required to, as a group, create a powerpoint presentation using the food chain that your group has chosen. In this presentation you are to briefly describe each member in the food chain and its function within the chain. Remenmber to inform the class in this presentation about what would happen to the food chain if your member disappeared from the environment. **

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__ **Task 3** __

 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">During this class you will be presenting your powerpoint to the class. You will need to speak in a clear voice so that the whole class can understand what you are saying. Each member of your group must present their own work on the animal that they researched during the first task. During presentations please be polite and show respect, to the group that is presenting, by not speaking and by listening throughout the presentation. **