A producer makes food using light in this model. Consumers obtain food by eating organisms or their products. A predator eats prey. One animal can be both predator and prey. Matter cycles; energy moves through the web and leaves as heat. Safety: Do not collect fungi, insects or droppings. Stop: Stop when every provided card has a role. Do not add guessed diets from animals outside this model.

Materials: Paper; Pencil 1. Copy these illustrative woodland cards: oak makes sugars using light; caterpillar eats oak leaves; small bird eats caterpillars and berries; hawk eats small birds; fungi break down dead material. Also draw a berry plant. 2. Draw oak → caterpillar → small bird → hawk. Add berry plant → small bird. Arrows mean food transfers matter and energy to eater. Label this joined set a food web and the four-card path a food chain. 3. Label oak and berry plant producer. Label each animal consumer. Use these meanings to sort diets: herbivore eats plants; carnivore eats animals; omnivore eats both. Find one example of each in the cards. 4. Add dead leaves and animal remains → fungi → soil mineral nutrients → oak. Write a sentence with decomposer and nutrient cycle. Circle a creature that is both predator and prey. Done: Keep a web with all feeding arrows, three diet labels and the decomposer sentence. Proof: Keep the labelled paper. Note any word definitions or arrow directions supplied by the adult. Stop: Stop when every provided card has a role. Do not add guessed diets from animals outside this model.