I.

SUBJECT MATTER

Topic: Energy Transfer in an Ecosystem

Subtopics:
a. Food Chain and Food Web
b. Food and Energy Pyramid
c. Ecological Relationships
References:

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II. OBJECTIVES
At the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
1. differentiate a food chain from a food web;
2. construct a food web and a food chain;
3. identify the role of organisms within a food chain;
4. distinguish and identify various types of relationships and interactions
exist among organisms;
5. recognize the importance of organisms in the energy flow.

III. ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE

A. Ecosystem
1. An ecosystem is a complex set of relationships among living
resources, habitats, and residents of an area. It includes plants, trees,
animals, fish, birds, microorganisms, water, soil, and people.

Ecosystems vary greatly in size and elements that make them up, but
each is a functioning unit of nature. Everything that lives in an
ecosystem is dependent on the other species and elements that are
also part of an ecosystem is damaged or disappears, it has an impact
on everything else.
 When an ecosystem is healthy, scientists say it is sustainable. This
means that all elements are in balance and are capable of reproducing
themselves. There is usually biodiversity, meaning that there are a
variety of living organisms and species in that environment.
2. Where living things interact with non-living things in an environment.

B. Have you ever asked yourself?

1. How does an organism survive in an ecosystem?
2. Why does an organism eat another organism?
3. What are the difference of food chain from food web?
4. How does energy transfer from one organism to another?
5. What are the types of relationships among the organisms in our
ecosystem?

IV. LEARNING EXPERIENCES

A. Activities
Activity 1: Scratch and Combine
The class will be divided into three (3) groups.
Each group will have three (3) representatives. Every team will be given
two (2) minutes to play. The representatives will be given a coin and three
scratch cards. Every scratch card has a definition of a term underneath.
After reading the definition, the representative will combine the letters and
will make a word out of it and will stick it on the board. After completing the
task, the first representative will make a pass to the second one. And the
first group to finish with right answers will be the winner.
Activity 2: A Dab of Glue Will Do
Students will make a food chain using some strip of papers, paper plate,
scissors, pens, colors and glue. Given the animals, the students will put
the animals on order depending on whom eats whom.

B. Analysis
1. What is the difference between food chain and a food web?
2. What are the three important elements in a food chain?
3. What is an energy pyramid?
4. What are the types of relationships among the organisms?

C. Abstraction
1. Difference between food chain and a food web
a. A food chain is a linear series of organisms illustrating a one
way route of feeding relationship. While a food web is a set
 of interconnected food chains by which energy and materials
circulate within an ecosystem.
2. Producers, Consumers and Decomposers.
3. An energy pyramid provides a detailed view of energy flow in an
ecosystem.
4. Competition, Predation, Commensalism, Mutualism and Parasitism.

D. Application
Categorize the Organisms
There are three major elements that make a food chain/web:
producers, consumers, and decomposers. Categorize the following
organisms as either producers (P), consumers (C), or decomposers
(D).
____ Owl ____ Bear

____ Fungi ____ Grasshopper

____ Algae ____ Earthworms

____ Ferns ____ Frog

____ Bacteria ____ Grass

Complete the Chain

Make a food chain using the following organisms: grasshopper, snake,

grass, frog, and hawk. Use arrows to show the flow of energy from one
organism to the next.

_______ _______ _______ _______ _______

E. VALUING
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
John Donne

F. ASSIGNMENT
 Direction: Answer the following questions in a sheet of paper.
1. How do Producers get their food?
2. Producers are also known as ______________________.
3. Producers make up the _____________ of the food chain.
4. How do Consumers get their food?
5. What are the differences between the 4 different kinds of consumers?

Answer key:
Categorize the Organisms
P Owl C Bear

D Fungi C Grasshopper

P Algae C Earthworms

P Ferns C Frog

D Bacteria P Grass

Complete the Chain

Grass Grasshopper Frog Snake Hawk

Prepared by:
Nievera, Shyra Franchesca B.
Checked by:
Mrs. Marjerie Quero - Cipriano