🦕 Dino Food Chain — a free maths game for kids
Feed each dinosaur what it actually eats — then keep plants, herbivores and predators in balance.
Herbivore, carnivore and omnivore start as vocabulary and become consequences: over-stock the predators and the herbivores vanish, then the predators starve. The population numbers rise and fall in front of the child, which makes the food chain a system rather than a diagram.
How to play
- 1A dinosaur arrives hungry. Choose a food it really eats.
- 2Get it right and it joins your valley.
- 3In ecosystem mode you set how many plants, herbivores and predators live there.
- 4Run the season and watch the populations move. Too many predators and the whole valley empties.
Frequently asked questions
- Is it a science game?
- Mostly. Classification, diets, habitats and food chains are the content; counting and reading population numbers are the maths that carries them.
- What happens if the ecosystem collapses?
- The valley empties and the season restarts with an explanation of what went wrong — collapse is the lesson, not a punishment.
- Are the dinosaurs accurate?
- The diets are. Each dinosaur is matched to plants, fish or meat according to what palaeontologists identify as its real diet.
- Is it free?
- Yes, free with no signup.