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Select four cards to create a food chain, starting with a producer. Label the trophic level of each organism in your food chain as follows: producer, primary consumer, secondary consumer, tertiary consumer. Record your food chain in the space below using species names and arrows.
In this hands-on activity, students will identify producers and consumers in their own state of Wisconsin. Using a set of “Snapshot cards,” they will then create a food chain to show the flow of energy in that system, introduce an ecological force or disturbance (e.g., flooding), and predict how that force would impact energy flow.
Starting with your original food chain (question 5), add another plant and four more animal cards to construct a food web that shows how energy flows from producers through primary consumers, secondary consumers, tertiary consumers, and possibly a quaternary consumer.
Select four cards to create a food chain, starting with a producer. Label the trophic level of each organism in your food chain as follows: producer, primary consumer, secondary consumer, tertiary consumer. Record your food chain in the space below using species names and arrows.
Explore 8 activities designed to help upper elementary students master food chains. From interactive lessons to hands-on projects, these science resources make learning ecosystems fun and memorable.
Create a model (e.g., a food chain) showing feeding relationships among organisms. Evaluate different models that depict relationships among organisms in a community. Predict how ecological forces or disturbances may impact models and justify claims with evidence.
Build a Food Chain - Sorting Activity Create food chains for a variety of ecosystems with this hands-on, student-centred activity.
