ABSTRACT
Children use prior knowledge about feeding relationships and food chains to take the role of a plant or animal in an outdoor game relating to some of the living things in their school grounds. Food chains and predator-prey interactions are explored. Then children research food chains from other habitats to extend the game. A food chain represents the transfer of food from a source to one or more living things, when one living thing eats another. The transfer of food is also a transfer of energy. Most food chains start from a green plant, which uses energy from the light of the Sun to make its own food through the process of photosynthesis. Children use the topic of food chains to compose a short song. This could form part of a class composition with a repeated, shared chorus in unison and each group singing their own verse within this structure.
