An Outdoor Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers Activity Your Students Will Love!

Turn your school grounds into a living science lab with this Outdoor Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers Activity.

This Outdoor Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers Activity is designed to get students outside and observing the natural world and identifying examples of animal roles in habitats. This differentiated worksheet pack seeks to help students identify and classify producers, consumers, and decomposers using real-life observations found right on campus.

Identify Examples of Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers on the Playground

Using these printable activity sheets, your students will head out to the playground to observe plants, animals, and signs of life in their schoolyard. As they explore, they’ll:

• Record organisms they see in the environment
• Decide whether each organism is a producer, consumer, or decomposer
• Use evidence from their observations to support their classifications

This pack includes three differentiated worksheet versions to support a range of learners:

• Easy – Students will draw and write examples.
• Intermediate – Students will write the objects observed and mark its role.
• Advanced – Students will write the objects observed and record the role.

Download Your Playground Habitat Exploration Worksheets

These Playground Habitat Exploration Worksheets are ready to use and flexible enough to fit a variety of teaching settings.

This resource is available in both PDF and editable Google Slides format.  To get your copy, click the dropdown arrow on the download button and choose your preferred file type.

This resource was created by Lindsey Phillips, a teacher in Michigan and Teach Starter Collaborator.

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