This week, our 6th grade scientists created a human size food web of the Great Lakes ecosystem. This allowed the scientists to understand and explain predator/prey relationships within the food web, as well as the indirect and direct relationships between the different organisms within our food web.

Even more interesting, our scientists got to experience what happens to an ecosystem when a disease strikes and wipes out a population of organisms within that ecosystem. In our food web, the yellow perch population got eliminated from our food web, which had some type of impact on almost all of the organisms within our web!

Ask your scientist about science this week and what organism populations they represented in our giant food web!

After Thanksgiving break, we will begin to write our next scientific explanation about what caused the trout population to decline in the Great Lakes.

Stay tuned!

Have a wonderful weekend,

Gev. McAdams