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Lesson 6: Food chains

Learning about how food chains represent how plants and animals obtain their food.
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Lesson plan

1. Recap and recall

Display slide 1 of the Presentation: Fact tennis and arrange the children in pairs. Ask them to take turns saying the names of animals that live in a woodland habitat. Allow approximately 10 seconds for them to name as many as they can.

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In this unit

Assessment – Science Y2: HabitatsLesson 1: Life processesLesson 2: It feels good to be aliveLesson 3: Introduction to habitatsLesson 4: Woodland habitatsLesson 5: Rainforest and ocean habitats
Lesson 6: Food chains
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Maintained by: Kapow Primary teamLast update: 2 July 2026

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