Habitats and food chains

Animals and their homes

Ages 5-735 minutes8 tasksNature & World

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What we are learning

Sort animals by habitat and build a simple food chain.

You will need: Pencil, Non-fiction animal book, Coloured pencils

Warm-up

Name an animal that lives in water, one in a forest, and one in a hot desert.

Word bank

habitatproducerpredatorpreyfood chainenergyadapted

1Sort the habitats

Write each animal in the right column: frog, camel, owl, fish, deer, snake, dragonfly, squirrel.

	pond	woodland	desert
animal 1
animal 2
animal 3

2Build a food chain

Put these in order with arrows: caterpillar, leaf, bird, cat.

My food chain

3More food chains

Order each set into a food chain. Remember the arrow means 'is eaten by'.

1. fox, grass, rabbit
2. heron, pond weed, small fish
3. owl, seeds, mouse

5Fact finding

Choose one animal and record three facts.

	what it eats	where it lives	one amazing fact
my animal is…

6Adapted to live there

Write one way each animal is suited to its habitat.

1. camel in the desert →
2. frog in a pond →
3. owl in woodland →

7Practise again

Draw your own food chain with three living things and label each one producer, prey or predator.

My food chain

My chain

My arrows point to the eater.
I started my chain with a plant.

8What if? & take it home

What would happen to the food chain if all the leaves disappeared? Explain. Then at home, find out one thing a garden bird eats.

My explanation

At home I found out…

⭐ Challenge

Draw a food chain from your own garden or park with at least four living things.

How did I do?

I can sort animals by habitat.
I can build a food chain.
I can explain what happens if part of a chain is missing.
I can say how an animal suits its habitat.