3rd Grade Art & Science Projects — The Inventor's Workshop — Building and Discovering
Students will create a diorama of an ecosystem and learn how plants, animals, and their environment work together in God's design.
An ecosystem is a community of living things and the environment they live in. God designed each ecosystem so that every plant, animal, and organism has a role to play.
There are many different ecosystems on Earth — forests, deserts, oceans, grasslands, and wetlands. Each ecosystem has unique plants and animals that are specially designed by God to live in that environment.
In every ecosystem, living things depend on each other. Plants produce food and oxygen. Herbivores eat plants. Carnivores eat herbivores. Decomposers break down dead things and return nutrients to the soil. This is the food web God designed.
A diorama is a small three-dimensional model of a scene. By building a diorama of an ecosystem, we can show how all the parts of God's creation work together in harmony.
Choose an ecosystem — forest, desert, ocean, or grassland. Build a diorama in a shoebox using construction paper, clay, small toys, and natural materials like twigs and pebbles. Include at least three plants and three animals that belong in your ecosystem. Label each living thing.