KS1 & KS2 science curriculum

This unit builds on pupils' prior learning from Introduction to food chains, where they explored the basic connections between producers, prey, and predators. In More about food chains, pupils will deepen their understanding by looking at more complex food chains and ecosystems, exploring how energy flows through different levels. This prepares them for the next unit, Why we group and classify living things, where they will learn to classify organisms, helping them understand the roles different species play within ecosystems.

1. Simple food chains
2. Producers in a food chain
3. Consumers in a food chain
4. Predators and prey in a food chain
5. Creating food chains
6. Comparing different food chains
7. Presenting food chains
8. Changes in food chains (non-statutory)
9. Dangers to food chains (non-statutory)
10. Protecting food chains

• Describe how animals obtain their food from plants and other animals
• Use the idea of a simple food chain to identify and name different sources of food