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Year 2 · Science

Animals: Food And Food Chains

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Focus on food chains predators and prey. Start with “Identify if an Animal is Carnivore, Herbivore or Omnivore”, then explain the idea in your own words.

Understand the key idea

A simple food chain shows how food and energy pass from one living thing to another. It usually starts with a producer such as a green plant, followed by one or more consumers.

Common mix-up

The arrow points from the food to the organism that eats it, showing the direction in which energy moves.

Try this first

  1. Start with a plant or another producer.
  2. Add the animal that eats the producer.
  3. Continue the chain and label producer, consumer, predator and prey where appropriate.

Ask: What does each arrow mean in this food chain?

Year 2 learners practise food chains predators and prey.

The activities include Identify if an Animal is Carnivore, Herbivore or Omnivore, Identify the Predator and the Prey, Recognise the Correct Order in Food Chains, and related practice. The checked support below includes video, interactive, teaching, lesson. Open a resource in its provider's website and choose the format that best helps the learner explain the idea independently.

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  • Identify if an Animal is Carnivore, Herbivore or Omnivore
  • Identify the Predator and the Prey
  • Recognise the Correct Order in Food Chains
  • Recognise the Producer, Prey, Predator or Consumer
  • Study Simple Food Chains
  • Understand Long Food Chains
  • Understand Simple Food Chains

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How Animals Get Food

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Roles Within Food Chains

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Introduction To Food Chains

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Comparing Food Chains

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