The Food Chain

Lab Brief #2

🎯 Your mission

Understand the idea. Then look for it everywhere.

⚡ The twist

Every species solves the same problem differently.

What you'll learn

A food chain shows who eats what. Grass is eaten by rabbits, and rabbits are eaten by foxes.

Key words

food chain
The path showing who eats whom to pass energy along.

Make a hypothesis first

Before you watch: what do you think it'll do?

Say your guess out loud — then find out if you were right.

Step 1 of 4 · Read

Look at the new words. Can you say each one?

Step 2 of 4 · Do

Draw a food chain: start with the sun, then a plant, then an animal that eats it, then a predator.

Step 3 of 4 · Observe

Look for something that changed. What is it?

Step 4 of 4 · Record

Circle the correct answer on your worksheet.

Question 1 of 3

What is a food chain?

How sure are you?😐 maybe

Question 2 of 3

What do all living things need?

How sure are you?😐 maybe

Question 3 of 3

What is a habitat?

How sure are you?😐 maybe

Mind = blown

🐙 An octopus has 9 brains and 3 hearts.

Nice work!

You got 0 of 3 right.

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🏆 Stretch challenge (try it this week): Watch a plant or pet for 5 minutes today and write down what you noticed.

👨‍👩‍👧 For the dinner table: “Tell me something you noticed about your own body today.”

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