🌿 WALT: We Are Learning To understand how living things are connected in food chains

Success Criteria - I can:

✓ Explain what a food chain is
✓ Identify different living things and how they connect
✓ Describe how one organism affects another

Food Chain Cards - Cut out these cards

PŪRIRI LEAVES
(Green plants make their own food)

PŪRIRI MOTH CATERPILLAR
(Eats pūriri leaves)

TŪĪ
(Eats insects and nectar)

KERERŪ
(Eats fruits and leaves)

KŌWHAI FLOWERS
(Provide nectar for birds)

WĒTĀ
(Eats plants and smaller insects)

🔗 Building Food Chains

1. Use your cards to make a simple food chain. Draw arrows to show "what eats what":

2. Circle the correct answer: What do we call the living thing that makes its own food?

Producer (like plants)

Consumer (like animals)

Predator

3. Complete this sentence: In a food chain, energy moves from _____________ to _____________.

4. What might happen if all the pūriri leaves disappeared? Tick all that might happen:

Pūriri moth caterpillars would have no food

Tūī would have fewer insects to eat

Nothing would change

Other animals might be affected too

5. Create your own New Zealand food chain using the sentence starter:

First _________________ makes its own food.

Then _________________ eats the _________________.

Finally _________________ eats the _________________.

🌐 Extension Activity: Food Web Challenge

6. Advanced learners: Draw lines to connect organisms that might eat each other. Remember, some animals eat more than one type of food!

7. Reflection: Write or draw one way that living things in New Zealand depend on each other:

📝 Teacher Scaffold Script

Sentence Starters for Students:

• "This organism eats..."

• "If this disappeared, then..."

• "This depends on... because..."

• "The energy flows from... to..."

Discussion Prompts:

• "What do you notice about the arrows?"

• "What would happen if we removed this card?"

• "How are these living things connected?"

NZ Food Chain Cards

NZ Food Chain Cards

🌿 WALT: We Are Learning To understand how living things are connected in food chains

Success Criteria - I can:

Food Chain Cards - Cut out these cards

🔗 Building Food Chains

🌐 Extension Activity: Food Web Challenge

📝 Teacher Scaffold Script

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