Food Chains and Food Webs Worksheets
- 36 pages
- 2nd, 3rd, 4th
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About this resource
Who eats whom? Help your 2nd, 3rd and 4th graders find out with food chains and food webs they can build with scissors and glue. These food chains and food webs worksheets start with a picture and a finished chain, then move to sorting producers and consumers, matching predators with their prey, building a chain link by link, drawing the arrows, and reading a meadow food web. The arrow always points to the eater. Print and go, in color or ink-saver.
WHAT IS INCLUDED - 36 pages
- Start Here - a quick start, what is inside with page numbers, how to use the three levels, and a line for your class's own food chain
- Food chain words - a picture poster for producer, consumer, predator, prey, food chain and food web (6 words), each with a short kid-worded meaning
- Finished food chains - a model page with 3 filled chains (the sun, grass, rabbit, fox; corn, mouse, snake; grass, grasshopper, frog, snake) and the sentences that read them aloud
- Sorts with cut pieces - 3 sorts: producers and consumers, plant eaters and animal eaters, and a three-group sort. Each has 8 picture pieces with the word on each, cut edge to edge so each cut is one straight line
- Predator and prey - one cut-and-glue sheet (4 predators, glue the prey each one eats, 6 pieces) and one circle-the-predator sheet (5 pairs, write who eats whom)
- Build a food chain - 3 cut-and-glue sheets: chain A glues every link of 2 chains (a faint picture shows each answer), chain B glues the two eaters in 3 chains, chain C glues a four-link chain and asks for 3 "who eats whom" sentences
- Draw the arrows - 4 chains: the first has its arrows drawn to copy, you draw them in the other 3
- Meadow food web - a food web of 10 plants and animals joined by 9 arrows on 2 sheets: read it and answer 4 questions, then a what-if sheet with 3 prompts and writing lines
- Food chain words, fill in - 6 sentences with a word bank
- My own food chain - pick pictures to copy, draw a chain and write about it
- Three levels, marked with a small shape: starting (a faint picture in each glue box, words under each box), building (no hints) and ready for more (four links, three groups, sentences to write)
- Ink-saver, black-and-white copies of all 15 student sheets
- A two-sheet answer key, a What's Next page and the credits
What This Is, And What It Is Not
It is a print PDF of cut-and-glue and write-by-hand pages with Whimsy Clips clip art, built for 2nd to 4th grade and special education classrooms: big pictures, one short direction a sheet, room to write, and cutting pieces set edge to edge so there are as few cuts as possible. The plants and animals are chosen so each one fits one group (a plant, a plant eater or an animal eater); some animals eat both plants and animals, and the Start Here page suggests talking about those. It has no form fields to type into, no scores, no standards claims and no assessment claims, and every sentence is plain and written for practice.
Who This Is For
2nd, 3rd and 4th grade teachers, special education teachers, interventionists and paraprofessionals who want a clear, visual, hands-on way to teach food chains and food webs, especially for children who need pictures, short text and a hint-first step before they work on their own.
