Producers, Consumer, Decomposers, and How they Fit Together!!!

Dear Parents and Teachers,

This week we have been working on producers, consumers, decomposers, Food Chains, and Food Webs.

Producers make their own food through photosynthesis and are eaten by consumers.

Consumers always either eat producers or other consumers.

Decomposers consume dead plants and animals, turning them into more simpler forms.

Food chains and food webs both are diagrams used to show the connection between different organisms that live in a given environment. Food webs are generally more complicated than food webs, because they are made up of more than one food chain integrated together.

Students can review examples of producers, consumers, and decomposers at this site. It is a very simple multiple choice style game.

This site has a good food chain review activity on it. It only covers on habitat, but has a couple of different question within it involving the animals. After trying out the review game, the students can try out the review quiz. The quiz asks basic questions to check comprehension of the overall topic of food chains.

After the student has reviewed producers, consumers, decomposers, and food chains they are ready to move onto the food web activity. This activity might be a little more challenging, however, all of the activities for this unit should be review for the students, and therefore quite easy for them.

Thank you, to those parents who helped their students make things at home during the last couple of units, you get this one off!

Miss Turner