CU 7.06Everything Is Connected

1. 1

   Lay the sun card at the left: 'The sun gives light. Plants need sunlight to grow.'

2. 2

   Place the grass next to it with an arrow: 'Grass grows with the sun's light.'

3. 3

   Place the rabbit: 'The rabbit eats the grass.' Add an arrow.

4. 4

   Place the fox: 'The fox eats the rabbit.' Add an arrow.

5. 5

   Point along the line: 'The sun, the grass, the rabbit, the fox. Each one needs the one before. This is a food chain.'

6. 6

   Take away the grass: 'What would happen to the rabbit? And to the fox?'

7. 7

   Invite the child to build the chain and check with the control strip.

What catches the child’s eye

• The arrows lining up to make one long path from the sun to the fox
• Taking one card away and seeing the gap it leaves

Extensions, easiest to hardest

1. Build the other food chains in the set
2. Make a chain for a pond or the ocean
3. Draw a food chain seen in the school yard
4. Talk about how picking up litter and saving water help the whole chain