Enjoy your dining experience

Name ______________________________________________

Directions
Main Dish
You must complete this activity.*

Side Dish

Choose 2 of these activities to complete.*

Dessert
You may complete any of these activities after you have
completed your main and side dishes.
* The main and side dishes can be completed in any order.

Rules
All work must be completed in school.
When you have completed a task, share your final product with a
teacher or peer. He or she will sign your menu on the signature
page to show that you have completed the task to the best of your
ability.
You will sign on the signature page of your menu. By signing, you
are saying that you have completed the task to the best of your
ability.
When working, use inside voices and follow all classroom rules.

Main Dish
Must complete
Create a layered foldable for a terrestrial food chain using the
vocabulary words listed below. For each word, include a definition and
a picture of at least one organism. You will need three pieces of
construction paper to create your foldable.

Vocabulary Words:
Producer
Herbivore
Omnivore
Carnivore
Decomposer

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Side Dishes
Pick 2

Key
Individual Work

Partner Work

Computer Needed

The Game of Food: Design a game that can be played to review

important food chain concepts. Your game can focus on one or
multiple concepts. Include game directions and materials. We will

keep the games in the classroom to
be enjoyed

throughout our food chain unit.

Once upon a time: Write a poem or short story about an

aquatic or terrestrial food chain. Choose one food chain to make
the focus of your poem or story. After drafting and revising your
poem or story, use Story Builder to write your final draft. You will
access Story Builder through our class Portaportal.

Chefs Special: You are the chef at a restaurant. Develop a list of

specialty dishes that your restaurant serves. Include at least 2
appetizers and 2 main dishes. Next, create a food chain
for each dish. Name your restaurant and design a menu
that shows each dish and its food chain.

Food Chain Fact Check: Read There was an Old Lady who
Swallowed a Fly. Rewrite the story to make it more scientifically
accurate. Create a book with your changes. Illustrations may be

hand draw or cut out from magazines.

The Food Chain Funnies: Create a comic strip about food

chains. Write and illustrate a comic strip using your knowledge of
food chains. Include an explanation of what your comic strip is
about and how it connects to what you have learned so far.

Food Chain Rock star: Write an educational song about food

chains. Your song may focus on one or multiple
concepts. Visit the computer station to record your
song on Garage Band. Save your song onto a CD.

Dessert
You may work on any of these when you have completed
your 2 side dishes and main dish.

o Read a book from the box labeled Food Chain Stories. Write a
letter to Miss Vinson about the story.
o Choose another side dish to complete.
o Share what you created with a peer who is also finished.
o Do a free-write in your journal.
o Review with your food chain learning tool.
o Other With teacher permission

Signatures

Main Dish:
Teacher/Peer Signature ______________________________
My Signature _________________________________________

Side Dish #1:

Teacher/Peer Signature ______________________________

My Signature _________________________________________

Side Dish #2:

Teacher/Peer Signature ______________________________
My Signature _________________________________________