The Bee Education Trust have produced a brilliant resource for teaching food chains and webs, with ideas, printables, games and curriculum links, as well as significant eco-schools links – bees_education_booklet
The children’s program ‘Deadly 60’ have produced an brilliant resource pack to teach for chains with loads of outdoor learning ideas and opportunities – livendeadly_teachers_pack-2
The use of owl pellets also provides excellent hands-on opportunities to investigate food chains, using keys, and with potential to then use numeracy skills to graph results (either as pictograms or bar graphs) of the animals the owl had eaten. Owl pellets must be responsibly sourced (through the Barn Owl Trust) and care taken with hygiene and possible animal hair allergies in your class.
owl_pellets_bulletin – SSERC bulletin with lots of useful information and risk assessments
Bank-Voles – template cards for pictogram
Field-Voles – template cards for pictogram
Mice – template cards for pictogram
Rats – template cards for pictogram
