Science · Stage 5
Food Chains
Energy flows from the Sun to plants, then along a chain of living things — and every creature in a habitat plays its own role.
✦ Science📘 Stage 5 · S5⏱ ~10 min🧒 Ages 9–10★ Free to start
I can describe food chains and the roles of living things in a habitat.
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Who Eats Whom?
Kavi perches in a sunny meadow 🌾. "Watch this! The Sun feeds the grass, a grasshopper nibbles the grass 🦗, a frog gobbles the grasshopper 🐸 — and I could swoop down for the frog! 🦉" "That is a food chain: energy from the Sun passing from one living thing to the next. Every creature has a job to do. Let's find out who eats whom!"
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What your child will learn
1The jobs in a food chainEvery living thing in a habitat has a role. Tap each one to learn what it does.
2A meadow food chainEnergy passes along the chain. Tap each living thing in order — the arrows point the way the energy flows.
3Producer, consumer or decomposer?Sort each living thing by the job it does in its habitat. Tap the right box!
4What happens in the habitat?A habitat is a connected system. Predict what happens, then tap to check. Tap Next test for more.
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A peek inside
Kavi draws this chain: grass → grasshopper → frog 🐸. Which living thing is the producer?
A producer makes its own food from sunlight. Grass is a green plant, so the grass is the producer. The grasshopper and frog are consumers.
Try this at home: What gives the energy that starts every food chain?
Ready to play and learn?
Start the free interactive lesson, or print the handout for screen-free play.
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