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E-lessons

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E-LESSON DATA

TITLE OF THE E-LESSON
E-learning from Nature: Feeding Relationships on the rocky shoreline
GEOGRAPHICAL AREA
Malahide and Portmarnock Dublin Bay
COUNTRY
Ireland
INTRODUCTORY TEXT TO THE LESSON
The teachers and students used their study of the rocky seashore to look at a number of topics:
What is nutrition: They found examples of herbivores, carnivores and omnivores while studying the seashore.
What is a producer: the students saw the importance of photosynthesis .
What is a consumer: this extended the study of nutrition and included a consideration of organisms that feed off dead organic matter.
What is a food chain: an example of a food chain from the rocky seashore was described. The terms predator and prey are also described..
What is a food web.
THEMATIC AREA
Biology
TARGET AGE GROUP
17, 16
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