1. Human Food Web
Where do you fit in?

2. Instructions
1. Create a list of the foods that you have eaten over a couple of days and/or foods you like to eat.
Your food list should contain about 20 foods.
2. What are the ingredients in the foods that you consumed? Make a list of the main ingredients.
3. Create a list of the organisms that supplied the ingredients.
E.g. Pork from a pig, milk from a cow, spices from various plants, sugar from sugar cane, etc.
Use the internet, food packaging, etc. to obtain the ingredients.

3. Instructions, etc.
Create a food web using the organisms that have supplied the food you have eaten over the last several days. You should also include yourself in the web.
You may include other organisms that the things you ate might have eaten.
E.g. Cows will have eaten grass or grains.

4. Instructions, cont’d
Make as many connections between organisms as you can.
Label the trophic levels.
Include your lists of foods, ingredients, and organisms with your food web.
The assignment is due Oct. 14th

5. Rubric Poor - 1 Satisfactory - 3 Excellent - 5 Content (weighted x2)
Presentation/
Completeness
Difficult to find information
Little impact/aesthetic value
Several missing requirements
Adequate layout
Some impact/aesthetic value
Requirements generally met
Layout very user- friendly
High impact/aesthetic value
All requirements met/exceeded
Content
(weighted x2)
Several errors in food web
Little depth of content
Incorrect scientific information
Few errors in food web
Content coverage acceptable
Scientific info generally correct
No errors in food web
Great depth of content
All scientific information correct