TPACK Template

Subject Science

Grade Level Third

Learning Objective VA Standards of Learning

The objective of the lesson is what
students will be able to do as they
3.5 The student will investigate and understand relationships
finish the activity. For this objective, among organisms in aquatic and terrestrial food chains. Key
use the Standards of Learning (SOL)
to say what you want to focus on.
concepts include a) producer, consumer, decomposer
You can find the SOLs at
Content

http://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/
look on the right of the screen for the
subjects and go from there.

Online Activity Describe Prior to the class meeting, the students will be sent a list of the
what the learning activity will be as
the students meet with the teacher
vocabulary terms that will be used. They will be expected to
online. What will the students and read them before the start of class to prepare for the activity
the teacher be doing? (This includes
what they are doing with the
ahead of them.
technology).

Once class has begun, the teacher will start with a discussion on
the difference between organic and inorganic matter is. This will
be the time where students will interact and talk to the teacher
about what they think the difference is, versus what it actually
is. Once the discussion is over the teacher will share a
worksheet, via Google Classroom, to all of the students. This will
be how they navigate through the activity. They will continue
streaming the class in the background so that the teacher is
readily available to answer questions as they go through it. The
worksheet that they have informs the students what they
should do and how to do it.

When Gizmo is opened, the students will be instructed to

advance the year several times and watch what happens. Once
that is shown, they will be told to remove all of the deer and
then advance it several years and watch what happens. Then
they will click on the data tab, select Pictograph, then the tree,
and they will see what taking the deer away does to the
ecosystem. Once it has been thought about, the students will be
lead into answering two questions regarding what they just did.
Once the questions have been answered, the students will be
instructed to click choose organism and click the mushroom.
Once they have seen what has happened, they will be told to
Pedagogy

answer the next two questions. The teacher will then tell the
students to stop and type something in the chat so that they can
let the teacher know that they have all reached that point.
 The teacher will then ask the students if they have any questions
up to this point. Once that is covered, the teacher will tell the
students that they may now continue through the worksheet
through the next two simulations. The teacher will then instruct
the students that the third simulation will be homework and to
be completed outside of the class time. Once the students have
gone through the two simulations and answered the questions,
the teacher will lead them into a group discussion. This
discussion will have the students think critically about the
impacts of producers, consumers, and decomposers and their
impacts on the ecosystem in which they live in.

Technology The students will use a laptop, as they would already be

Technology

Name of the device and/or programs

being used. (The description of what
streaming the class, navigating to the Gizmo site and Google
the students will be doing with the Classroom.
technology will be included in the
pedagogy/activity section).

Jordan Atkins