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Food chains

Science Year 2
This unit is part of Year 2 Science Habitats

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Objectives

Role play food chains in the hall. Understand that, in a healthy habitat, all living things depend on each other in different ways.

Science Objectives
i) Identify that most living things live in habitats to which they are suited and describe how different habitats provide for the basic needs of different kinds of animals and plants, and how they depend on each other.

Working Scientifically

  1. Ask simple questions and recognise that they can be answered in different ways.
  2. Identify and classify.
  3. Use observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions.

Lesson Planning

Teaching

  • To understand how a food chain shows that living things need other living things to survive
  • To look for examples of food chains
  • To make accurate records for what is discovered when exploring outside
  • To create examples of correctly ordered food chains
  • To classify living things as carnivores, herbivores and omnivores

Activities

  1. Understand what is meant by a food chain.
  2. Understand that living things need other living things to survive.
  3. Observe parts of food chains in the school grounds and discuss what would happen in the rest of the food chain.

Investigation - exploring
Role play the interdependence of a food chain and consider what part each plays in its survival.
Explore the school grounds, looking for examples of food chains (living things eating leaves, for example).

Vocabulary
food chain, predator, habitats, dependence, omnivore, herbivore, carnivore

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