Energy Starts with the Sun

Build food chains whose arrows show energy flowing from the sun.

Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.

What children learn in Level 18

Almost all the energy for living things starts with the sun. Producers capture it to make food.
A food chain shows how that energy moves. Sun, then grass, then rabbit, then fox.
Look at the arrows. Each one points from the living thing that is eaten to the one that eats it. The arrows show the way the energy flows.
Food chains on Georgia's coast work the same way: sun, algae, shrimp, small fish, heron.

Georgia Standards of Excellence in Science:

S4L1.b — Develop simple models to illustrate the flow of energy through a food web/food chain beginning with sunlight and including producers, consumers, and decomposers.