This week we are doing lots of science linked to our topic, 'animal planet'. We grouped several animals depending on what they eat and learned that they have a special name, carnivore, herbivore or omnivore. We thought it was funny that humans were an animal too! Can you remember which we were?
We used our playmobil animals to demonstrate which animals ate what and discovered that we could actually line some of them up with more than one thing being eaten.
We later learned that this is called a 'food chain' and that there are lots of different ones that link animals and plants together - we even saw one with 5 different plants or animals in it! We learned how the arrow shows the 'energy transfer', although lots of us remembered this as 'which way the food is going' or 'whose belly does it go into!'
We put a selection of animals into a food chain and with support, we had a go at deciding whether each animal was a herbivore, carnivore or omnivore.
We discovered that as plants didn't eat anything as such, they couldn't be a carnivore, herbivore or an omnivore. We very briefly discussed how plants produce their own food and so are called a 'producer'.
To finish off, we challenged ourselves further to think about the new scientific vocabulary that we had learned. We came up with some of our own animals to draw put into Venn diagrams (which lots of us remembered from our home learning!)
Green = herbivores Omnivores Red = carnivores
Fantastic effort today Orange Class and an awful lot of new information to take in! Jolly well done. In advance, have a wonderful weekend (:
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