Coral Reef Community Drama scene descriptions

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Coral Reef Community Dramascene descriptions

• Hawaiis Coral Reefs
• Kindergarten
• PRISM GK-12

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Organize!

• Organize the students by their assigned puppets
  into groups according to what they eat
  (herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, decomposers,
  producers). Have them sit in the audience in
  these groups.

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Scene 1 Producers

• Sunrise the sun hat comes out.
• Algae costumes move back and forth catching the
  rays, and make their own food from the energy.

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Scene 2 Herbivores

• The herbivorous fishes (convict tang (manini) and
  the honu swim by and nip at the algae

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Scene 3 Omnivores

• The humuhumunukunukuapuaa (reef triggerfish)
  and raccoon butterfly fish swim by and nip at
  algae and eat zooplankton (tiny larvae).

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Scene 4 Decomposers

• The crabs walk across the floor and eat scraps of
  algae and dead animal material.
• Crabs stay on set for scenes 5 and 6

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Scene 5 Daytime Carnivore

• The octopus moves quickly across the floor and
  eats the crabs.
• The octopus and another crab stays on stage
  during sunset interlude.

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Sunset Interlude

• The sun sets and the moon rises.
• Coral polyps grab at zooplankton (tiny floating
  animals like isopods) to eat.

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Scene 6 Night-time Carnivores

• The eel lunges at the crab that is resting from
  behind the coral reef.
• A monk seal swims by and eats an octopus.
• The shark hunts the monk seal.
• The End.
• Huddle for a discussion about the food web and
  have students place puppets on the coral reef
  community posterboard.

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Discussion

• We are learning that animals that live in the
  coral reef depend on each other.
• - Why do they depend on each other?
• We call this a food chain.
• (Show students color coded paper chain)
• - What would happen if we removed a link (e.g.
  carnivores) from the chain?

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Stick puppets to the Reef Community Poster!

• Think about where are puppets would go in the
  reef community. The arrows connect who depends on
  who.
• Here are some plants or algae. Who has an animal
  that eats plants (herbivore)?
• Call herbivores up one at a time to stick their
  puppets to the poster.
• Here are some urchins. Who has an animal that
  eats urchins? Etc.