Students should read the
Activity 2: Roles in the Ecosystem worksheet below. Provide students with the “Wadden Sea Species Cards” (in PDF below) to gather information about the organisms in the national park ecosystem.
Students will:
- Work in a small group (3 or 4 students).
- Use information from the reading to classify each organism in the card deck.
- Sort the cards into three groups: producer, consumer, and decomposer.
- Sort the consumers into three groups: primary, secondary, and tertiary.
- Students will build a digital display as a record of their work (instruct students to use the digital platform of your choice to work on their display).
- View the displays created by other groups and compare similarities and differences.
- Leave a comment or question for the other groups.
Formative Assessment
As a scientist, students will organize the producers, consumers, and decomposers of the
Wattenmeer ecosystem to show how energy flows through the system. Students should work in their groups to arrange the cards to show how energy flows through the ecosystem.
Note: If your students are unfamiliar with energy transfer in ecosystems, use an easy introductory game to help students understand the transfer of energy within an ecosystem.