Differentiation Ask students to name examples of producers, herbivores, carnivores, and decomposers from their own experience. Ask students to identify examples of producers, herbivores, carnivores, and decomposers from a trip outside to the school grounds or pictures of familiar ecosystems. Modifications Have students draw an image of an ecosystem of their choice during step 3 and list the types of organisms that might live there. Then during step 5, have students identify producers, herbivores, carnivores and decomposers in the ecosystem they drew. If they don’t have an organism in each role, encourage them to draw a new organism to play that role in their ecosystem. Extending the Learning Have students use online satellite imagery to take a picture of their neighborhood and identify where the carbon is located near their home or school.
