FREE PRIMARY SCIENCE · Year 4
Food chains and decomposers
Who eats whom in a habitat, and what happens to living things when they die?
Students predict changes in an Australian bush food web on the iPad, build food chains from paper cards using a source about Australian animals, then search real leaf litter for the decomposers that recycle dead things. Lesson 1 needs only iPads; lessons 2 and 3 need paper and a bucket of leaf litter.
3 free lessons · Australian Curriculum v9
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Food web what-ifs
What happens in a food web when one living thing changes?
Open free interactive lesson →Chain makers
How can we show who eats whom in an Australian habitat?
Open free interactive lesson →Clean-up crew
What happens to leaves after they fall, and who helps?
Open free interactive lesson →
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