October 2

Producers, Consumers, Decomposers..oh my!

What’s a food chain? How does energy flow from one thing to the next?

A food chain shows us how each living thing gets its food.

A fun game we played together in class today showed us how a food chain works and gave us a chance to make our own food chain. Give it a try! Click on the picture to try it for yourself. (Make sure Adobe Flash is up to date).

Here is some vocabulary we’ve been exploring:

  • producers (make their own food, such as plants)
  • consumers (cannot make their own food, such as animals)
  • decomposers (break down food and eat dead plants and animals, such as bacteria, fungi)
  • herbivores (plant eaters)
  • carnivores (meat eaters)
  • omnivores (both plant and meat eaters)

What type of eater are you?

 

Here are a few short videos about food chains and food webs.

 


Posted October 2, 2017 by MrsS in category 2017-2018, Science and Social Studies

1 thoughts on “Producers, Consumers, Decomposers..oh my!

  1. Vanessa

    Dear Mrs.Sullivan l really enjoyed bench ball. Maybe we can try to play bench ball outside. I loved the picture of Mrs.Rudy wearing the chicken costume.When are we going to play bench ball again?

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