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Food Chain Game

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Students explore animal characteristics by participating in a role-play activity. In this food chain instructional activity, students discuss the order of life and how animals must eat other animals to survive. Students conduct a food chain game in which they role play as either grasshoppers, frogs or hawks and chase food on the class floor.

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eating habits, healthy eating, animal diets, animals, food chains

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animal diets, circle of life, eating habits, food chain, science
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Grade
K - 5th
Subjects
Science
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Resource Type
Lesson Plans
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For Teacher Use
Duration
3 days
Instructional Strategies
Inquiry-Based Learning
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