The Lower Four students have been focusing on the topic of interdependence, studying how organisms depend on each other in an ecosystem. They recently took their biology lesson outside, to take part in a fun learning activity in their year group bubble!
This rather wet activity demonstrated how energy is transferred through a food chain. Organisms in the food chain use energy for growth, movement and reproduction amongst other things, so not all the energy is passed on to the next trophic level.
The girls could visualise this as the water ran from their cups as they tried to transfer the ‘energy’ from one bucket ‘organism’ to the next.
Our Lower Fours will now move on to thinking about how energy is used in a variety of ecosystems, making presentations on examples of these such as the Coral Triangle, the artic and the Galapagos.
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