Grades 3–5
Build a Food Chain
Draw a four-link food chain for a habitat you choose, then label the levels of an energy pyramid.
Science worksheet · Food chains and ecosystems
Read a Food Web
Answer six questions about a meadow food web with nine living things.
- Grade level
- Grades 4–5
- Time
- About 25 minutes
- Answer key
- Yes, page 2 of the PDF
- Kids practice
- Food chains, Producers and consumers, Ecosystems
What kids do
Printed on the sheet:
- Arrows point from the food to the animal that eats it.
- 1. Name a producer.
- 4. Write a food chain with four living things.
- 5. If the grasshoppers disappeared, what would happen to the frogs?
Words on this sheet
hawksnakefrogfoxmousegrassrabbitberries
Teacher tip
Have kids trace each path in the web with a colored pencil before they answer.
How to use it
- Use a ball of yarn to build a food web in a circle of kids.
- Start every food chain with the sun so kids see where energy comes from.
- Start with a two-minute “I notice, I wonder” talk about the picture on the sheet.
Watch for
Arrows in a food chain point to the eater: they show where the energy goes.
Talk about it
- What would happen if one link in the chain disappeared?
- How could we find out if that is true?
Take it further
Make a hanging food chain mobile from paper and string.
US Letter, prints well in black and white. Free for home and classroom use: print as many copies as you need.
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Grades 3–5
Producers, Consumers and Decomposers
Sort twelve living things into producers, consumers and decomposers.
Grades 3–5
Herbivore, Carnivore or Omnivore?
Sort twelve animals by what they eat: plants, meat or both.
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