Written by Lauren Cunningham, Don Galbraith Award Recipient 2025, York University In this lesson, students will explore a local outdoor space to identify real organisms in their natural environment. They will then classify them into trophic levels: producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, decomposers, etc. and collaboratively construct local food webs. Students have the freedom to […]
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