Food Chain Poster
Product Explanation Sheet
Outcome: To create a food chain poster.
A food chain is a diagram that tells “who eats who” within an environment. For example:
seeds
snail
fox
bird
bacteria
Steps:
__ obtain a piece of poster paper, no larger than 25 x 30 inches
__ review your notes from the Food Chain Worksheet
__ review the food chain picture above (which has 5 organisms)
__ create at least 5 (five) food chains examples on your poster. The organisms in each food
chain must be from the same ecosystem. Examples of ecosystems are prairie, scrub,
rainforest, inter-tidal (beach) and coral reef.
__draw or find pictures of each member of your food chains.
__label each member of the food chain as a producer, consumer or decomposer.
__ make sure each of your 5 food chains include at least 4-7 organisms
__ make sure one of the 5 food chains is an example from your neighborhood
__ label the particular place and/or type of ecosystem of your food chains
NOTE: If you want to see more examples of food chains in different places,
go to the Resources section of the Who Eats Who? WebQuest (prairie,
scrub, inter-tidal, etc.)