Lesson Planning

Teaching

To understand how a food chain shows that living things need other living things to survive.
To create examples of correctly ordered food chains.
To classify living things as carnivores, herbivores and omnivores.

Activities

Explore the school grounds, looking for examples of food chains (living things eating leaves, for example).
Understand what is meant by a food chain and that living things need other living things to survive.
Make a food chain using laminated cards and string. Challenge each other to string them up in the right order.

Investigation - exploring, researching and analysing secondary sources
Make a food chain game using cups with photographs attached. Challenge another class to complete the food chains.

Vocabulary
habitats, food chain, energy, transfer, predators, omnivore, herbivore, carnivore