L.Outhwaite Bells Farm Primary School Instructions: Photocopy the sheets onto card and cut up. Attach 2 paper clips to each card. Have a pile of paper clips available for further ‘energy’. Give each child a card and ask that they read it out. Discuss with the class which cards are decomposers and explain what this means. Remind the class about producers and consumers. Set rules – when sun is up they may ask their food source for a paper clip ( max of 3 different sources each ‘day’ When sun goes down all animals must give up 1 paper clip to signify losing energy through movement and respiration Each producer can ask the sun (teacher) for 3 clips each day Run the game a few times giving approx 2-3 min for each day Extension; Explain the plants have all caught a disease and that when they lose their energy they must give up the card and sit down as they cannot produce any more food. Explore the effect on the others in the food web. Fungi Slugs Eats any dead plant or animal Eats any plant – leaves, roots and seeds Vole Snowdrop Eats any plants, plant roots, berries and grass seed Makes own food from sunlight energy Primrose Makes own food from sunlight energy Wild rose Makes own food from sunlight energy L.Outhwaite Bells Farm Primary School Caterpillar Badger Eats oak tree, bluebells, buttercups, grasses Eats worms, shrews insects, bluebell roots, buttercups, and grasses Earthworms Blackberry Eats any dead animal or plant Makes food from sunlight energy Blackberry Shrew Makes food from sunlight energy Eats insects, earthworms, and any plants Owl Swallow Eats mice, shrews, swallows worms, woodlice, slugs and snails Eats any insect and butterfly, worm, snail, slugs and grass seeds L.Outhwaite Bells Farm Primary School Bluebell Oak tree Makes food from sunlight energy Makes food from sunlight energy Buttercup Grass Makes own food from sunlight energy Makes own food from sunlight energy Buttercup Makes own food from sunlight energy Grass Makes own food from sunlight energy Bluebell Oak tree Makes food from sunlight energy Makes food from sunlight energy L.Outhwaite Bells Farm Primary School Woodlice Earthworm Eats leaf litter, any plants, plant roots, Berries and grass seed Eats leaf litter, any plants, plant roots, Snail Fungi Eats leaf litter (from any plant), any plants, plant roots, Berries and grass seed Eats any dead plant or animal Butterfly Insects Eats bluebell nectar, buttercup flowers, oak nectar Eats oak leaves, bluebell flowers, buttercup flowers grass seeds Squirrel Mouse Eats grass seeds, oak seeds (acorns) bluebell roots, buttercups Eats grasses, bluebell roots, buttercups, blackberries
