Food Chains
Year 4
Unit Overview
In this unit, children explore food chains and will identify the producer, consumers, prey and predators in a range of different food chains. By the end of this step, children should identify plants as producers as they get their energy from the Sun. They should also identify animals as consumers as they get their energy by “consuming” or eating other things.
❇ MEMORABLE MOMENT
Becoming scientists and using taxonomy to classify new living things.
️✏️ WRITING OPPORTUNITIES
Writing a newspaper article about an unclassified creature which has been washed up on a beach.
🌳 LEARNING OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM
Explore food chains of living things in their habitat.
Unit Sequence: Learning Intentions
1. What is a food chain? Construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey.
2. How can food chains be interpreted? Construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey. Working scientifically − Using straightforward scientific evidence to answer questions or to support their findings.
3. How are food chains drawn? Construct and interpret a variety of food chains
4. How has human activity affected food chains? Working scientifically − Reporting on findings from enquiries, including oral and written explanations, displays or presentations of results and conclusions.
Scientific Enquiry: Investigations
How does pollution affect habitats?
🏁 BIG FINISH
Children to complete a classification report based on a new discovery.
📖 FOCUS TEXT(S)
A variety of online texts and non-fiction books.