A Texas Prairie Food Web

A Texas Prairie Food Web Worksheet: Food webs (Grade 4 Science)

Students follow a Texas prairie food web from the Sun to grass, a grasshopper, a roadrunner, and a coyote, with mushrooms as decomposers. They circle each living thing’s role and use the arrows to answer questions about energy and matter. The page teaches the idea first, so no prior lesson is needed, and every answer is on the page.

What's Inside

• A teach box on how arrows show energy flow and how decomposers return matter to the soil
• Part A: a pictured prairie food web; circle producer, consumer, or decomposer
• Part B: three circle questions that follow the arrows
• A raccoon guide with a hint that matches the answer key
• An answer key with answers marked in red, plus a short teacher note with what to watch for

How Teachers Use It

Read the teach box and the worked example together, then let students try Part A and Part B. It takes 8 to 10 minutes and prints clearly in black and white. The focus skill is describing energy flow and the cycling of matter through a food web. Standards: TEKS 4.12B: describe the cycling of matter and flow of energy through food webs, including the roles of the Sun, producers, consumers, and decomposers.

Why It Works

Real Texas prairie animals make the food web easy to follow. Questions are short, mostly circle answers, and the reasoning is on the teacher key.