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Grade 4 Science · World 3: Food Web Forest · Level 17
Producers, Consumers, Decomposers
Sort living things by their role in a community.
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 17
- Welcome to Food Web Forest! Every living thing in a community has a job. There are three main roles.
- Producers make their own food using energy from sunlight. Plants and algae are producers.
- Consumers can't make food. They eat other living things to get energy: a rabbit eats grass, and a fox eats the rabbit.
- Decomposers, like mushrooms, bacteria, and earthworms, break down dead plants and animals, returning nutrients to the soil.
Georgia Standards of Excellence in Science:
- S4L1.a — Develop a model to describe the roles of producers, consumers, and decomposers in a community. (Clarification statement: Students are not expected to identify the different types of consumers – herbivores, carnivores, omnivores and scavengers.)