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Dead Stuff: The Secret Ingredient in Our Food Chain Instructional VideoDead Stuff: The Secret Ingredient in Our Food Chain Instructional Video
Publisher
TED-Ed
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Grade
6th - 9th
Subjects
Science
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Resource Type
Instructional Videos
Media Length
3:51
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For Teacher Use
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Duration
15 mins
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Direct Instruction
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Year
2014
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Dead Stuff: The Secret Ingredient in Our Food Chain

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A disgusting and direct description of detritus and decomposition is digested in this drill! Your life science class learns about the importance of decomposers in the food chain and finds out how one organism's trash is another organism's treasure! 

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Concepts

decomposers, food chains

Additional Tags

decomposer, food chain, detritus, science

Pros

  • Amusing animation uses leaf patterns for all of the organisms, showing how all of them are made up of others
  • With a free subscription to the publisher's website, you can edit the accompanying multiple-choice and discussion questions
  • Links to many additional related resources are provided

Cons

  • None

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