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Animals get food by eating

Follow the food and its energy.

I can build a food chain and explain its arrows.

Food-chain illustration: sunlight reaches grass; a food arrow runs from grass to rabbit and another from rabbit to fox.Open image full size
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Start with a feeding link

A rabbit can eat grass.

Which living thing is the plant?

Who gets the food when the rabbit eats?

Grass growing from the ground.Open image full size
A rabbit.Open image full size
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Three things we will do

Identify a producer and consumers.

Read the food-chain arrow.

Build and check a simple chain.

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Read the chain from food to eater

Grass, labelled producer, points to rabbit, labelled consumer; rabbit points to fox, also consumer. Arrows run from food to eater.
Original teaching-pack diagram and labels.
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Grass, labelled producer, points to rabbit, labelled consumer; rabbit points to fox, also consumer. Arrows run from food to eater. grass rabbit fox producer consumer consumer food / energy passes to the eater Grass can be eaten by a rabbit. A rabbit can be eaten by a fox. The arrows show food and energy passing to the eater.
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A reversed arrow changes meaning

WRONG FOR THESE CLUESCHECK THE EVIDENCE
Rabbit → grass This would pass food to grass.Grass → rabbit The rabbit eats the grass.
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Producer or consumer?

Green grass makes food using light.

A rabbit eats plants.

A fox eats other animals.

Choose the role before the explanation.

A rabbit.Open image full size
A fox.Open image full size
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Try a second set of living things

Green leaves on a plant

Caterpillar

Robin

Which one makes food using light?

A green plant with two leaves.Open image full size
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Cover the plant: what might change?

Cover the grass in the model chain.

What food source does the rabbit lose?

Could a fox be affected later?

Grass growing from the ground.Open image full size
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Explain a consumer using because

The fox is a consumer because it obtains food by eating other living things.

Food-chain arrows show food and energy passing to the eater.

A fox.Open image full size
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Put the chain the right way round

USE THE FEEDING CLUESCHECK THE CLAIMS
Rabbits can eat grass. Foxes can eat rabbits.Which organism comes first? Where does each arrow point? “Animals make their own food.”
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Repair one arrow and save it

Turn one arrow the wrong way on purpose.

Use the feeding clue to repair it.

Say who receives food at that arrow.

Keep the chain for Wednesday.

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