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Food chains: the desert

Food chains: the desert

TLF ID L1143

Create food chains to describe interactions within a desert environment. Look at the feeding patterns between plants and animals. Arrange producers and consumers into a food chain such as spinifex>bilby>eagle. This learning object is one in a series of six objects.

Tags: Food chain Food chains
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Educational details

Educational value
  • Introduces the concept of food chains built on energy captured from the Sun.
  • Students select the Sun and living things to complete four elements of a food chain.
  • Includes three levels that progressively increase in difficulty through reduction in visual cues.
  • Displays diagrams showing selected food chains within a desert environment.
  • Features animals with a range of feeding preferences.
  • Includes geometric shapes as visual cues to help students classify living things as plants, herbivores, omnivores or carnivores.
Year level

3; 4

Topics Food chains Living things Decomposition (Living things) Ecosystems Data analysis Data representation Graphs (Data representation) Consumers (Food chains) Patterns Modelling
Learning area
  • Science

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  • Contributor
  • Name: Synergy International Ltd
  • Organization: Synergy International Ltd
  • Description: Technical implementer
  • Address: NEW ZEALAND
  • URL: http://www.synergy.co.nz/
  • Name: Education Services Australia
  • Organization: Education Services Australia
  • Description: Data manager
  • Person: Erica Dale
  • Description: Script writer
  • Person: Colin Web
  • Description: Subject matter expert
  • Publisher
  • Name: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Organization: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Description: Publisher
  • Address: VIC, AUSTRALIA
  • URL: http://www.esa.edu.au
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  • Name: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Organisation: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • URL: www.esa.edu.au
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  • Hearing independence
Learning Resource Type
  • Interactive
Rights
  • © Education Services Australia Ltd, 2016, except where indicated under Acknowledgements. Unless otherwise indicated, this material may be used in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.