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1st grade · Science · Unit 10 of 11

Who Eats What?

Simple food chains, and living and nonliving things together.

What your child practices

Practices simple food chains (grass is eaten by a grasshopper, which is eaten by a bird) and how plants and animals in a terrarium or aquarium depend on water, light, air, soil and each other.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: 1.12(B); 1.12(C) · how living and nonliving things in a terrarium or aquarium depend on each other, and simple food chains

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. A food chain shows who eats what.
  2. Every food chain starts with a plant.
  3. Plants need sunlight, water, air and soil.

Example: Grass → grasshopper → ___. Who eats the grasshopper? A bird eats bugs. The bird comes next. Answer: a bird

Who Eats What? in Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 10 of 11 in 1st grade Science, after Soil & Water and before Bird, Mammal & Fish Life Cycles.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Texas Education Agency (TEA)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    If all the grass disappeared, rabbits would…

    • not notice
    • have more food
    • have less food
    • grow bigger

  2. Question 2

    Which animal is a plant eater?

    • A wolf
    • A deer
    • A shark
    • A hawk

  3. Question 3

    Which is a nonliving part of an aquarium?

    • A fish
    • A water plant
    • A snail
    • Water

  4. Question 4

    Which is a living part of an aquarium?

    • Water
    • A fish
    • Gravel
    • A glass wall

  5. Question 5

    A hawk eats a snake that ate a mouse. Who is at the end of the chain?

    • The seeds
    • The hawk
    • The snake
    • The mouse

  6. Question 6

    Which food chain is in the right order?

    • Grass → cricket → frog
    • Frog → grass → cricket
    • Cricket → frog → grass
    • Frog → cricket → grass

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