5E Lesson Plan: Black-Footed Ferrets and the Prairie Food Web

Assessment · Grade 5 · Science

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• Name: Engage
• Minutes: 20
• Purpose: Surface students' prior knowledge about food webs and predators while sparking curiosity about the Black-Footed Ferret as a keystone species — creating a need to investigate how one species can hold an entire ecosystem together.
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• Q1. Draw a simple food web with at least 5 organisms from today's activity. Circle the Black-Footed Ferret. Then cross it out and write one sentence explaining what you predict would happen to ONE other organism in your web if the ferret disappeared.

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