Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers Mollie Bell Content Area: Science Grade Level 4 Summary: This activity is to enhance students’ knowledge of the food chain by identifying a.
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Producers,
Consumers,
and Decomposers
Mollie
Bell
Content Area: Science
Grade Level 4
Summary: This activity is to enhance students’ knowledge of the food
chain by identifying a living thing as a producer, composer or
decomposer. In this activity, students will identify a living thing as a
producer, composer or decomposer by placing the picture into the
correct category.
Learning Objective: Given pictures and different categories, the student
will be able to identify a living thing as a producer, composer or
decomposer with 100% accuracy.
Grade Level Expectation: GLE 0407.3.2 Investigate different ways that
organisms meet their energy needs.
State Performance Indicator: SPI 0407.3.1 Determine how different
organisms function within an environment in terms of their location on
an energy pyramid
All living things are part of the food chain. Each living thing is either a
producer, consumer or decomposer. These categories are all important
to the other. It is the basis of the food chain. This creates a circle of life.
Producers
Decomposers
Consumers
Producer
A
producer can make its own food.
Plants are producers.
Producers make food and oxygen for
consumers
Consumer
A
consumer eats either other plants or
animals in the food chain. Animals are
consumers.
Consumers are food for decomposers.
There are three groups of
Consumers
Herbivores
Herbivores only eat plants.
Carnivores
Carnivores only eat animals.
Omnivores
Omnivores eat plants and animals.
Decomposer
A
decomposer feeds on or breaks down
dead plants and animals.
Decomposers provide food for producers.
Decomposers are fungi, bacteria, worms,
crabs and some insects.
Click here
to learn more about producers,
consumers and decomposers
Click
anywhere on the yellow to play the
Producers, Consumers, Decomposers
game. Play all the way through.
Did you answer them all correctly?
Were you surprised by some of the
answers?
Click on the above link for the interactive
whiteboard review
Write your answers on a piece of paper and turn in to
the teacher.
Are
people producers, consumers
or decomposers? Why ?
Are people herbivores, carnivores or
omnivore? Why?
Reflection
If
the food chain is made of producers,
consumers, and decomposers and it is the
circle of life, are people really the top of
the food chain?
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http://eorganic.info/sites/eorganic.info/files/u33/millipede.jpg
http://hsus.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/06/27/475x312_calf.jpg
http://www.mediaandsociety.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Help-WildAnimals-in-Danger.jpg
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http://cdn.zmescience.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/crab-yellow.jpg
http://www.biologyreference.com/photos/c4-and-cam-plants-3826.jpg
http://www.guide-to-houseplants.com/image-files/venus-fly-trap1.jpg
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