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2nd grade · Science · Unit 12 of 14

Producers & Consumers

Build food chains and see how animals depend on other living things.

What your child practices

Practices making food chains that start with a producer (a plant that makes its own food) and continue with consumers (animals that eat plants or other animals), and how animals depend on other living things for food.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: 2.12(B) · food chains of producers and consumers, and how animals depend on other living things

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Producers are plants. They make their own food.
  2. Consumers are animals. They eat plants or other animals.
  3. Arrows in a food chain point to the one that eats.

Example: Grass → rabbit → ___. Who eats the rabbit? The arrow points to the eater. A hawk eats rabbits. Answer: a hawk

Producers & Consumers in Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 12 of 14 in 2nd grade Science, after Care for Our Earth and before Wind, Water & Wild Weather.

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

    Grass → grasshopper → ___

    • sunflower
    • lizard
    • acorn
    • grass

  2. Question 2

    In grass → mouse → snake, the mouse eats…

    • grass
    • snakes
    • mice
    • rocks

  3. Question 3

    An animal that eats only plants is a…

    • rock
    • carnivore
    • herbivore
    • producer

  4. Question 4

    Algae → tadpole → ___

    • lily pad
    • fish
    • rock
    • algae

  5. Question 5

    Which is a producer?

    • A rabbit
    • A hawk
    • A frog
    • Grass

  6. Question 6

    If foxes disappeared, the number of rabbits might…

    • stay exactly the same
    • go up
    • turn to zero
    • go down

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