Food Chains, Food Webs, and Bioaccumulation

This week we have been studying food chains, webs, producers, consumers, herbivores, carnivores, omnivores.  We did a project as a work sample here:

After school on Monday, we went to our favorite beach where we observed the tide pools.  We witnessed the food chain in action in everything including the Pelicans diving like Kamakazis into the water to fetch fish while opportunistic seagulls fought to steal their catch. 

So CUTE!!!!!

'You are so Beautiful! You are smart like Tuna.'

We saw octopus, many species of sea stars, and sea slugs, and ruffled 'things' that were indescribable!  We saw real sea monkies!  It is so amazing what one can learn from the world around them!!!

We are struggling in mountains of paperwork assigned by out school and it is eclipsing our ability to get out and learn the lessons found through hands on, real time interaction with the sources.  Though I TRYYYYYYYY!!!



OK.... so, instead of going over the same material, I decided to expand it by having the kids do abioaccumulation activity.  Here is the link to the game:  TRACING TOXINS