Science Courtney Cochran Food Chain of Command
7/20/2021 | 3mVideo has Closed Captions
Rise and Shine 3rd-5th Teacher Lesson: 2017 ATOY Courtney Cochran - Food Chain of Command
Ms. Courtney Cochran is back with her family’s turtle Turto! Join her as she explains some of the different organisms within a food chain and the roles they play in keeping the circle of life in motion.
Rise and Shine is a local public television program presented by Arkansas PBS
Science Courtney Cochran Food Chain of Command
7/20/2021 | 3mVideo has Closed Captions
Ms. Courtney Cochran is back with her family’s turtle Turto! Join her as she explains some of the different organisms within a food chain and the roles they play in keeping the circle of life in motion.
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Welcome back to another terrific Tuesday on Rise and Shine.
I'm Courtney Cochran and I've got another great science lesson for you today.
Do you remember when you met my friend Turto?
Isn't he a cute little turtle?
Turto is a reptile, remember?
He breathes in air into his lungs and he has scaly skin, and he's cold blooded.
That means he likes his habitat warm, with these rocks and warm water and plants.
Turto also really loves to eat insects like these little grub worms.
Those insects are a part of his food chain.
Food chains are what every organism exists inside of so that we all have food to eat and to survive.
Turto is also a tasty little snack for other animals.
Animals like skunks, and raccoons, and foxes, they love to eat turtles.
I bet Turto's glad that he lives inside this tank, so he's safe away from those predators.
So Turto's food chain starts with insects that eat plants, insects like grasshoppers and grub worms.
And he eats the insects and other animals would eat him if he weren't protected.
Those animals have predators as well.
And when those animals die, they return to the soil and insects like grub worms help turn their bodies into the soil.
They're called decomposers.
And that is how life exists here on planet earth, with everything in a food chain, helping each other survive and turn back into the soil.
So your investigative assignment for today young scientists, is to find an organism in or around your home, and I want you to draw a picture of the organism in its food chain.
See if you can predict what does that organism feed on and what organisms feed on that organism?
I can't wait to see your predictions.
I know your food chains are gonna be fabulous.
I'll see you next time for another science lesson.
But until then, remember, never stop exploring and never stop discovering.
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