Wapakoneta Elementary school Fifth graders in Mr. Lloyd Sarasin's science class are kicking off the new year with a unit on the food web, and on Thursday, they had an up close look at their first subject of the year.
Contained in a clear, glass bowl, with a few leaves and cherry tomatoes for sustenance, were two tomato worms that Sarasin found in his garden, a perfect tie in to the year's curriculum.
"We're going to start out with, 'what is a producer?'" Sarasin said. "A producer is anything that gets its energy from the sun."
"Then from the producers, either an animal comes along and eats that producer, then it goes up the food chain, what-eats-what, all they way to the top," he continued. "At times there will b...
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