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This activity can be done in class in small groups. Students will be given a set of cups and must create a food chain. This activity will allow students to practice identifying the flow of energy in a food chain.

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This activity can be completed as a whole class or in small groups. Students will use string to identify the flow of energy within the food web.

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This video will give students an overview of food webs and their importance in an ecosystem. The video explains how energy is transferred in a food web.

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This worksheet will allow students to review what they have learned about food chains and food webs. Students will be able to practice demonstrating the flow of energy in a food chain and food web.

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Food Chain and Food Web interactive worksheet

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Life science online activity for elementary. You can do the exercises online or download the worksheet as pdf.

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This video will explain food chains and their importance in an ecosystem.

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Fabulous Food Chains: Crash Course Kids #7.1

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Decomposers, Producers, and Consumers Identifying Worksheet

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Decomposers, Producers, and Consumers Identifying Worksheet

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This worksheet will allow students to test their knowledge of decomposers, producers, and consumers. Students will be able to use what they learned from the previous video to complete the worksheet.

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This game will allow students to test their understanding of food chains and practice identifying the flow of energy in a food chain.

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Food Chain Game - Science - Sheppard Software Educational Games for kids

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Food Chain Game - Food chains come to life: when a chain is correctly put together, it turns into an animated working chain!

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What is the difference between a food chain and a food web?

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What is the difference between a food chain and a food web?

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This website will explain the differences between a food chain and food web.

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Meaning of Words

Herbivore - an animal that eats plants. ( - an animal that eats other animals. ( - an animal that eats both plants and animals eg bears and humans. ( See photos)
Carnivore See photos)
Omnivore See photos)

Producer - usually a green plant that produces its own food by photosynthesis - Animals that consume only plant matter. They are herbivores - eg rabbits, caterpillars, cows, sheep, and deer. - Animals that eat primary consumers (herbivores).
Primary Consumer Secondary Consumer
Tertiary Consumer - Animals that eat secondary consumers ie carnivores that feed on other carnivores.

Predators - kill for food. They are either secondary or tertiary consumers - eg polar bears, golden eagles
Prey - are the organisms that predators feed on. Examples of predator and prey species are: fox and rabbit; blue tit and caterpillar; wolf and lamb

Scavenger - a consumer that eats dead animals (e.g. crab, crow, vulture, buzzard and hyena. ) - a consumer that obtains its nutrients from detritus
Detritivore Decomposer
- an organism such as bacteria and fungi that breaks down dead organisms and their wastes. . (They do not 'eat' the food like scavengers, as they have no mouth-parts. Instead they break down solid matter into liquids which they can absorb.) Examples: bacteria and some fungi. Trophic Level - A trophic level is each level in a food chain. Matter is always 'lost' as heat energy at each trophic level. Basal Energy Requirement (B.E.R.) - the amount of energy used by an organism's body just to keep alive, when no food is being digested and no muscular work is being done.

Food Web - a network of interrelated food chains in a given area

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Herbivore - an animal that eats plants. ( - an animal that eats other animals. ( - an animal that eats both plants and animals eg bears and humans. ( See photos) Carnivore See photos) Omnivore See photos) Producer - usually a green plant that produces its own food by photosynthesis - Animals that consume only plant matter.

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This video will give students an overview about ecosystems and introduce them to food chains and food webs.

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Understanding Ecosystems for Kids: Producers, Consumers, Decomposers - FreeSchool

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This video will explain the roles of decomposers, producers, and consumers in an ecosystem.

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Parts of the Food Chain (Producers/Consumers...)

Producers

Plants are called producers. This is because they produce their own food! They do this by using light energy from the Sun, carbon dioxide from the air and water from the soil to produce food - in the form of glucouse/sugar.
The process is called photosynthesis. Click on the image below to learn about photosynthesis.

Consumers

Animals are called consumers. This is because they cannot make their own food, so they need to consume (eat) plants and/or animals.

Decomposers

Bacteria and fungi are Click on the left-hand image to learn more. decomposers. They eat decaying matter - dead plants and animals and in the process they break them down and decompose them When that happens, they release nutrients and mineral salts back into the soil - which then will be used by plants!

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Producer Consumers - Food Chain - Kid's Corner

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Online games and education. kids educational games. Kids Corner. Herbivore, Carnivore, Omnivore. Online learning. Animal diet. Free online games for kids.