Greensboro Children's Museum
Fifth Grade
“Garden Food Systems”
Stations:
NC Common Core and Essential
Standards:
Kitchen- producer,
consumer,
decomposer pizza
Science
- Ecosystems
5.L.2.2 Classify the organisms within an
ecosystem according to the function they serve:
producers, consumers, or decomposers.
Examples of Activities:
- All students will wash their hands after discussing
kitchen safety and hygiene.
- Classify pizza ingredients as producer, consumer, or
decomposer.
- Use pre-made dough or flatbread to assemble a
“producer, consumer, decomposer pizza” that will be
shared with the group.
Garden Food System
Observation
(Pond, Chicken yard,
Compost, and/or
Garden Area)
Science
- Ecosystems
5.L.2.1 Compare the characteristics of several
common ecosystems, including estuaries and salt
marshes, oceans, lakes and ponds, forests, and
grasslands.
5.L.2.2 Classify the organisms within an
ecosystem according to the function they serve:
producers, consumers, or decomposers.
5.L.2.3 Infer the effects that may result from the
interconnected relationship of plants and animals
to their ecosystem.
- Explore 1-3 habitats in the Edible Schoolyard,
paying attention to the organisms present in each.
- Students will discuss food systems and examine
specimens, classifying them as producer, consumer,
or decomposer and think about the role each plays in
the food system.
- Each group will discuss how the specific system
being observed compares/connects to other systems
and to larger systems. Students will explore questions
such as, “What would happen to the system if any of
the pieces were taken away?” “What is the student’s
role in the system?”