The game for exploring the food chain
Product: Teaching tools
ISBN: 978-88-590-2863-5
Publication date: 01/05/2022
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A game designed for girls and boys to discover the basic concepts that regulate how food chains work and stimulate their curiosity towards the biodiversity of lake environments, often threatened by human actions. Create food chains and increase your score but be careful to match the cards with plants and animals that have a trophic relationship between them in nature: so hawk eats frog, but frog does not eat hawk!
Careful, pollution prevents food chains from functioning!
The game for exploring the food chain
Hawk eats frog is a game designed to allow children to discover the basic concepts that regulate how a food chain works, stimulating curiosity about the biodiversity of lake environments which are often threatened by human actions. When playing Hawk eats frog, you will have to create food chains to score as many points as possible, making sure to match the plant and animal cards together in the right "food chain" sequence that connects them: therefore hawk eats frog, but frog does not eat hawk! Warning: pollution prevents food chains from functioning and interrupts them!
The game is intended for 2-5 players aged 7 years and up. Each game lasts for approximately 15-20 minutes.
Materials
The game is made up of 60 triangular cards, to be placed side by side while respecting the order of the food chain. Each colour represents a different role in the food chain, that is, as scientists would say, a different "trophic level":
Green: plants at the basis of the food chain
Purple: herbivores eat plants
Yellow: first level predators eat herbivores
Orange: second level predators eat the first level ones
Red: top predators eat the second level ones
Light blue: water is essential for life
Black: pollution can destroy the food chain
Point charts
Game Objective
By playing and having fun, children ages 7 and up can:
Leaf through the instruction booklet to find out more and get to know the game:
THE AUTHOR
Silvia Crocicchi Class of 1983, illustrator and author since 2005, she loves nature and is inspired by it on every occasion. She collaborates and / or has collaborated with Erickson, Rusconi, Mondadori Piemme, Buk Buk, Edizioni Paoline, Clementoni, Headu, Lunii, Chiare Edizioni, StoryBox creative Lab and many others.