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Follow the food
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1 · Learn
A food chain shows where an animal's food comes from. A rabbit can eat grass. A fox can eat a rabbit.
We can write grass → rabbit → fox. The arrow points from the food to the animal that eats it. This is one food chain, not everything those animals eat.
2 · Worked example
In grass → rabbit, I follow the arrow from grass to rabbit. It tells me the rabbit eats the grass, not that the grass eats the rabbit.
3 · Your turn
In cabbage leaf → caterpillar → blue tit, what eats the caterpillar? Where does the caterpillar's food come from?
Check your answer
The blue tit eats the caterpillar. The caterpillar eats a cabbage leaf, which comes from a plant.
4 · Apply your learning
Make three named picture cards for grass, rabbit and fox. Put them in order and add arrows pointing from food to eater.
Adult guidance and safety
Use a simple plausible chain, then explain that diets can include other foods. Never feed wildlife to test it.
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With an adult, look at a safe real example or a checked photograph. Name the example and say which you used. Record what you actually notice. Do not taste plants or materials, approach unknown animals or invent missing observations.
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