Starting with Science: Fifth-Grade Students Develop Speaking and Listening Skills While Investigating Food Webs and Habitats

This article demonstrates how the authors used a 5E lesson about food webs as a context to embed speaking and listening standards. This 5E lesson partially addresses 5-LS2-1 in the "Next Generation Science Standards" and focuses primarily on predator/prey relationships. Future lessons focus on decomposition and other relationships. To help students connect to the materials, many of the examples early in the 5E are connected to the prairie because the authors live in Iowa. This could be adapted to other habitats.