FOOD CHAINS AND FOOD WEBS WORKSHEETS

Teaching kids about food chains and food webs can be tricky, so I find the best way to introduce this subject is by starting with food chains first.

Begin by asking your students  – What is a Food Chain?

Then write food chain in the middle of an anchor chart with a bubble around it.

Accept all ideas and contributions from your class…kids love this bit and they feel

like their ideas are accepted and valued!

Next, expand on your students’ contributions by integrating the following factual information:

1. A food chain is a simple way of showing the flow of energy from one living thing to another.
2. Let’s start with a plant because plants tend to be the first link in the chain as they make their own food through photosynthesis.
3. The plant is called a producer because it produces its own food.
4. Next, we have an animal that eats the plant.
5. This animal is called a consumer because it consumes or eats the plant.
6. It might be a herbivore, which eats only plants, or an omnivore, which eats both plants and other animals.
7. So a simple food chain could be: Grass (producer) → Rabbit (herbivore) → Fox (carnivore)

Now, let’s move on to food webs.

A food web is a more complex way of showing how different organisms in an ecosystem are connected through their feeding relationships.

It is like a group of interconnected food chains that overlap and connect with each other.

For example, let’s imagine a forest ecosystem. In the forest, there are plants, trees and bushes, which are producers.

Deer eat the plants and they are herbivores. Wolves eat the deer, so they are carnivores.

But there are also insects that eat the plants and birds that eat the insects.

All of these interconnections make up a food web.

So, in summary, a food web or simple ecosystem is a system of varied plants and animals that are interlinked together. m has a role to play in maintaining the balance of nature. If one part of the food web is disrupted, it can have an impact on other organisms in the ecosystem.

FOOD CHAINS AND FOOD WEBS WORKSHEETS

If you’re looking for a no prep ready-to-go printable worksheets, then grab it here!

• Second Grade
• Third Grade
• Fourth Grade (extra lined templates provided)
• Fifth Grade (digital option via Easel)

• ‘My Food Chain’ Booklet (optional front cover page)
• Fun Facts to read and highlight
• Food Chain Bubble Map
• Missing Vocabulary to find and write
• Carnivores, Herbivores, Omnivores
• What is A Food Chain?
• Extra-lined writing template for differentiation
• Create a Food Chain!
• How Do Plants Make Their Own Food?
• Extra-lined writing template for differentiation
• All About Ecosystems
• Vocabulary Science/Literacy Word Wall: food chain, food web, energy, ecosystem, food, plants, sunlight, carnivores, herbivores, omnivores, producers, consumers decomposers