A plant is a living thing with leaves that it uses to make its own food. Grass and trees are plants.

To absorb is to be able to soak up or take in.

Photosynthesis is the way in which plants make food.

A food chain shows how living things depend on each other for food.

A producer in a food chain makes its own food.

Producers in a food chain

Science

Simple food chains

Consumers in a food chain

Predators and prey in a food chain

Creating food chains

Comparing different food chains

Presenting food chains

Changes in food chains (non-statutory Climate Change & Sustainability)

Dangers to food chains (non-statutory Climate Change & Sustainability)

Protecting food chains (Climate Change & Sustainability)

In this More about food chains unit, pupils learn to identify producers, predator and prey in a food chain. In the Why we group and classify living things unit, they will build on this knowledge to learn that living things are classified into broad groups according to common observable characteristics and based on similarities and differences

In the Introduction to food chains unit, pupils learnt to use the idea of a simple food chain to identify and name different sources of food. In this More about food chains unit, pupils will build on this knowledge to construct and interpret a variety of food chains

This unit involves constructing and interpreting food chains and identifying producers, predators, and prey. It focuses on asking questions, gathering and presenting data, recording findings with diagrams and charts, and using scientific evidence to answer questions and support findings.

More about food chains

Plants can move around and hunt for food.

Plants make their own food, so they are called the {{}} in a food chain.

Which of the following are producers in a food chain?

What do plants do during the process called photosynthesis?

Where would you put a plant in a food chain?

Which of these do plants need to make food?

Which of these are basic needs of animals?

A chain of events which explains what time of day different animals eat food.

The order in which living things depend on each other for food.

What information can be presented in a food chain?

Herbivores only eat plants, carnivores eat both plants and animals.

Herbivores eat any food, carnivores only eat meat.

Herbivores only eat plants, carnivores eat other animals.

How are herbivores and carnivores different from one another?

What do the arrows in a food chain represent?

Herbivores depend on {{}} to stay alive or survive.

A plant needs to hunt other plants for food in order to survive.

Producers in a food chain

Lesson outcome