LEARNING OBJECTIVES
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ICT
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Food Chains
To be able to draw a puffin food chain.
To be able to draw simple food webs.
To be able to show that most food chains start with a green plant.
To be able to use a food chain to show feeding relationships in a habitat.
To be able to use a food chain to list the variety of plants and wildlife that live in a habitat.
Add data to an existing
database
Record information on a
spreadsheet
Use suitable software to
construct a flowchart or
mapping diagram.
LINKS
Geography
Art
VOCABULARY
predator, prey, consumer, relationship, food
chain, producer,
ACTIVITIES
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The Puffin. Ask children to draw/write what it needs to live
and where those things come from. Discuss
Discuss what would happen if something in a food chain
died out for some reason.
Use pictures of marine life to devise a Puffin food chain.
Construct a simple puffin food web using pictures and
lengths of string.
Discuss what threat other sea birds and humans represent
to Puffins.
Design a poster to highlight how human activity threatens
the existence of puffin colonies around the world.
RESOURCES
Pictures/photos of
puffins/marine life
Videos, books
Classification charts
Set of prepared “clues”.
Description cards
List of sea birds and marine life
(Find Out)
How do Puffins gather fish from the sea?
How many fish can a puffin carry in its beak?
What is special about a Puffins jaw?
How do other sea birds make a puffin drop the fish it has
caught?
 How has human activity in the past resulted in Puffin
numbers falling on the island of Burhou?
POSSIBLE INVESTIGATIONS
 Why did Puffin numbers fall on the Island of Burhou between 1920 and 1970?
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NC Outcomes:
2+
Can identify the plant (plant part) in a food chain.
Can identify the producer in a food chain and understand what the word means.
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4
Can construct a food chain with 3 stages.
Knows that a food web is made up of food chains.
Can identify predator and prey relationships correctly.
Can construct a food chain with 4 stages.
Can also identify carnivores, herbivores, and consumers.
Can construct a reverse food chain.
Can explain a food web in own words
Create your own food chains!
Remember humans are also consumers!
All living things need heat from the sun to grow!
What is a food chain?
All living things need food to give them energy to move and grow. A food chain shows where
each living thing gets its food from. It shows who is eating who. The arrow means “is eaten
by”.
A food chain normally starts with the sun which in turn gives the green plants energy to grow.
Without the sun, plants would not grow, and without plants there would be no animals.
These green plants are the producers.
Grazing animals then eat the plants; this could be herbivores which only eat plants such as
limpets or omnivores, which eat both plants and animals such as wrasse (a fish) or people.
The herbivores or omnivores then become food for carnivores
such as birds of prey such as peregrines or seals.
Finally all things die and once plants or animals are dead their
bodies are broken down by animals such as worms or bacteria
(decomposers)
Find out what these words mean?
prey
predator Consumer
producer
herbivores
omnivores
carnivores
bacteria
decomposer
scavenger
Many sea birds live and visit the island
of Burhou each year. Complete each
bird’s food chain?
The Puffin
Which card is the missing link?
Many sea birds live and visit the island
of Burhou each year. Complete each
bird’s food chain?
The Seal
Which card is the missing link?