Science & Technology

Head of Faculty – Science & Technology

Chris Pacey

Year 7 Science

This week our Year 7 Science class enjoyed some outdoor education during their unit on food webs. A food web consists of all the food chains in a single ecosystem. Each living thing in an ecosystem is part of multiple food chains. The girls have been learning about the producers and consumers that make up trophic levels in a food web as well as how ecosystems are highly connected. Students used string to connect food chains together to help create a visual representation of various food webs in different ecosystems. 

Students also undertook a fun activity to help them understand that some animals are better adapted to take advantage of available foods and will fare better than those who are less adapted. They played the role of birds using different “beaks” made of clothes pegs, fork, forceps, bulldog clips to eat their food  types of beans, macaroni, rubber bands and toothpicks.