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Food webs, classification and biodiversity Additional primary activities to accompany the Gould League Food webs, classification and biodiversity kit. |
Food Chain Mobile
Level 2 and
3
Curriculum area: Science
Background
This activity could be used to conclude a section of work on feeding relationships using the Gould League Food webs, Classification and Biodiversity kit. Students need to be familiar with the concept of food chains for this activity.
Outcomes
Students:
- Construct food chains and food webs as a mobile
- Identify feeding relationships in an ecosystem
- Identify the different components of a food chain - producer and consumers
Materials and preparation
| Animal pictures cut-outs from the Gould League Food webs, Classification and Biodiversity kit, paper, textas or paints, scissors, string for connecting animals/plants together in a food chain, hole punch for making holes for tying string, straws for cross links into a food web, photocopies of the kit picture cut-outs (optional). |  |
Method
Discuss food chain and food web examples using the kit pictures. Students construct a food chain or food web mobile by ether drawing their own animals or by using photocopies of the cut-outs from the kit.
Students:
- Select a producer, herbivore and carnivore.
- Draw them on paper, colour them in and cut out the shapes.
- Make holes in the paper cut-outs.
- Connect the animals and plants in the food chain with string to make a mobile.
- Some students may be able to make a mobile with interconnected food chains (ie a food web) by using straws as cross pieces to link the food chains.
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