Science Activity Collection 2 Samples

Lyrics: Food Chains Song

Who's eating who? what's eating what?
If you want to find out, know the habitat
Herbivores eat plants, plants are producers
All of the animals, are consumers

A food chain, is like a steam train
At the front is the engine, where the energy's supplied
A food chain, is like a steam train
Herbivores eat producers, it's always the same

Food chains can be long, they can be short
It depends what lives in the, habitat
At the start of the chain, sun and green plants
At the end, the predator, waits for its chance

The owl eats a snake, the snake eats a rat
The rat feeds on nuts, all juicy and fat
Some days the owl, prefers to eat mice
Mice love grains, they eat, wheat and rice

Dolphins eat tuna, tuna eat herring
Herring eat creatures called, zooplankton
But what do zooplankton eat, how do they survive?
What are the producers that keep them alive?

Allosaurus, ate Stegosaurs
Which ate ferns. They were herbivores.
No matter how big, no matter how small
The sun gives energy, to us all

Never forget, when something dies
At the end of the chain, decomposers arise
Their job's to break down, and enrich the soil
So producers grow strong and give food for us all.

Name on YouTube is Food Chains Song

Curriculum Alignment: UK & US

UK National Curriculum 
Core KS1 Focus: Year 2 Science

Directly supports the understanding of Animals, including humans by clearly illustrating what animals eat and how this connects to their habitats. The concepts of herbivores, prey, and predator are established, setting the context for simple food chains.

Core KS2 Focus: Year 4 Science

Provides the necessary vocabulary and conceptual models for the statutory objective under Living things and their habitats to construct and interpret simple food chains, identifying producers, predators, and prey. The song explicitly names and defines producers, consumers, and decomposers, which are essential KS2 terms.

Extension Value: Higher KS2 Science

The lyrics detailing the sun as the ultimate energy source and the role of decomposers in recycling nutrients provide crucial preparatory knowledge for the Year 6 objectives on interdependence and the cyclical nature of ecosystems.

NGSS Standards (K–2 Focus)

This song is the most direct way to introduce the concept of Energy Flow within ecosystems.

Core LS Focus: Grade 2 (G2)

Targeted Alignment (G2-LS2-1): Directly supports the requirement for students to investigate the relationship between resources in an ecosystem and the organisms that survive there. The food chain model is the clearest demonstration of this interdependence.

Targeted Alignment (G2-LS4-1): Supports the understanding of the roles of different organisms (producers/consumers) within a habitat.

Extension Value: This concept is essential prerequisite knowledge for Grade 5 standards (5-LS2-1), which require students to develop models to describe the movement of matter and energy.

Global Suitability Note: The concepts in this song align with foundational Life Science standards used across Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and other English-speaking curricula.