Lesson
1
Content Objective:
Students will build
background knowledge about the food chain after watching a video and
listening to a book about it.
Language Objectives:
Ss
will respond orally to questions after watching a video clip about food chain. (Listening & Speaking)
Ss
will complete a graphic organizer to illustrate an example of the food chain.
(Visual literacy)Materials
Pictures cards: horse, giraffe, elephant, zebra, rabbit, cow/ eagle, lion, bear, leopard, tiger/ dog, turkey, pig
Venn diagram
Discovery Channel:: What is Food Chain?
Non-fiction book, “The Food Chain,” (from readinga-z.com)
Graphic Organizer, Animal pictures (plant, grasshopper, frog, fish, bear)
scissors, glue, marker and color pencils
Warm-up
ü Ss will look at the pictures of animals on a pocket chart and classify
the name of animals to each category: Plant Eater (herbivore), Meat Eater
(carnivore), and both (omnivore).
Use Venn Diagram to talk about ‘meat eater’ vs ‘plant eater’
Guided Practice
ü Use realia to show Ss that a chain is made of links.
ü Introduce term “food chain” by watching a video clip (discovery channel:
What is Food Chain?). ü T distributes copies of book The Food Chain.
Ss will read through and discuss pictures and ideas on each page.
Independent Practice
ü Ss will be given a graphic organizer and animal pictures.
Ss will color and glue the pictures on a graphic organizer of the food
chain sequence.
ü Ss will orally explain their food chains to the teacher.
Lesson
2
Content Objective:
Students will build
background knowledge about the food chain after watching a video and listening
to a book about it.
Language Objectives:
Ss will write sentences to recall the sequence of events from a non-fiction book. (Writing)
Language Objectives:
Ss will write sentences to recall the sequence of events from a non-fiction book. (Writing)
Materials:
Blank sentence strips, sentence frame
Guided Practice
ü Students will be given five blank sentence strips.
ü Ss will write sentences to show the relationship between a producer and a
consumer.
ü Ss will be guided to write five sentences in sequential order.
The first sentence will be given and Ss will copy or write: The plant grows.
ü The sentence frame will be provided: The_________ eats the __________.
ü Ss will be guided to write five sentences in sequential order.
The first sentence will be given and Ss will copy or write: The plant grows.
ü The sentence frame will be provided: The_________ eats the __________.
Independent Practice
ü Ss will write four more sentences to describe the picture of the food
chain shown in their graphic organizers.
ü Ss will read each sentence to sequence all sentence strips in sequential order.
ü Ss will read each sentence to sequence all sentence strips in sequential order.
ü If time allows, Ss will play food chain games online.
Food Chain Graphic Organizer Food Chain Pics
