ES-LS2.A-1a
Food Frenzy
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Game Info for Teachers
COMBINED RATING
4.0 Stars
TEACHERS (16)
4.1
STUDENTS (6025)
3.9
LENGTH
20 Minutes
GRADES
3
4
5
CAPABILITIES
iPad Support
ES
Spanish Language Support
Text-to-Speech Support
Saves Progress
Description
Join a young girl on an exciting runner adventure. Players will guide her as she imagines transforming into various animals. Each level introduces a new environment and interactions with other creatures to learn how energy flows through the food chain.
Vocabulary Words
food web
herbivore
carnivore
omnivore
predator
prey
producer
consumer
apex predator
decomposer
Instructions
Play through this interactive game to learn about Food Webs. Suitable for Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5.
Main Concepts
A predator is an animal that hunts other animals for food.
Zooplankton are tiny, animal-like organisms that float freely in water.
A prey is an animal that can be hunted by another animal for food.
Phytoplankton are tiny, plant-like organisms that float freely in water.
Animals need energy to perform their life processes.
An omnivore is an animal that consumes both plants and animals.
Phytoplankton form the base of the ocean food web.
When animals eat plants, they obtain the chemical energy stored in the plants.
An herbivore is an animal that consumes only plants.
A food web shows how matter and energy move in an ecosystem.
Phytoplankton carry out most of the photosynthesis on Earth.
Examples of living resources are plants and animals.
Some examples of decomposers are fungi and bacteria.
A producer is an organism that can produce its own food to obtain energy.
Decomposition eventually recycles materials back to Earth’s soil for plants to use.
A carnivore is an animal that consumes only other animals.
Examples of producers are plants and phytoplankton.
Consumers are animals that eat other organisms to obtain energy.
Decomposers are organisms that break down dead plant and animal remains.
The energy in an animal’s food was once energy from the Sun that was captured by plants.
Interdependency means that every organism depends on other organisms to survive.
Discussion Questions
Before the Game
What do animals need to survive? Where do animals find food?
After the Game
What is an herbivore? What is a carnivore? What is an example of a producer? What is an example of a food web?
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Game Details
Difficulty
Content Integration
Lexile Level
505
