Citizen Science - Understanding Food Chains

Students explore food chains using local species and Earthwatch’s ClimateWatch citizen science program. Students begin this lesson by investigating how energy flows through a food chain and look at the range of trophic levels that may be present in a food chain. They then work in groups to use the ClimateWatch app to guide research into a species in their local area, and make hypotheses on how climate change might impact these species. Students then create a scientific poster to share their work with the class.