JoinScience Sampler: Interactive interdependence
Modifying and building on a lesson created by the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre, the British Columbia Ministry of Education, and the Provincial Learning Network (2000) that supports National Science Education Standards Teaching Standard A—Science as Inquiry and Content Standard C—Life Science (NRC 1996), the following activity will literally tie your students in knots to create not only a human food web, but a web of understanding about the interdependence of all organisms and abiotic factors in an ecosystem.