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Introduction to food chains

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  • BQ03 Biology: How do living things live together in their environments?

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This unit covers how animals obtain food from plants and other animals using simple food chains. It includes identifying and naming different food sources, asking questions, classifying, and gathering and recording data to answer questions about animal diets and food chains.

This unit builds on pupils' prior learning from Naming and grouping animals, where they learned to classify animals based on characteristics such as their diet and physical traits. In Introduction to food chains, pupils will explore how animals get their food and how food chains connect different living things. This prepares them for the next unit, More about food chains, where they will deepen their understanding of how food chains work by exploring more complex interactions between producers, predators, and prey in ecosystems.

  1. How animals get food
  2. Introduction to food chains
  3. Roles within food chains
  4. Comparing food chains

  • Explore the natural world around them,
  • Make observations of what different animals might eat
  • Know that animals including humans eat plants
  • Identify and name a variety of common plants
  • Identify and name a variety of common animals
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