Describe the relationships and interactions between various members in food chains and food webs. Grade 5 - Students will investigate the food energy chain to understand the relationships between living resources. This will help them identify ways in which we can use these resources more responsibly in our communities. All living creatures get their energy from food. All organisms are connected to the food they eat and to the creatures that eat or decompose them through a food chain, which is part of a larger, interconnected food web.
Energy is transferred from one species to another through the food chain.
By learning about food energy chains, students will see that all members in a food web are connected in some way to each other. Students will realize that you can not damage one piece of the web without damaging the whole web. Give each of 15 students a Food Energy Chain picture card and have the students spread themselves randomly through the classroom. Wrap the yarn once around the wrist of the person who holds the grass card. Wrap the yarn once around the wrist of the person who holds the moose.