LESSON PLAN LESSON: Ecosystem and food chain

Teacher: Salama Subject: science

Grade: 3 Unit: Date: 28/10/2019

Animals life
cycles

SKILLS AND UNDERSTANDING

Students will be able to:

• What is ecosystem?
• What is food chain?
Link to prior learning: Students will need to be familiar with the following

Animals, environment, Plants, sea, habitat.

21st Century Skills: Students will be able to enhance the following skills:

o Collaboration: Students will collaborate to complete the activities.

o Critical thinking: Students will have to think about how do food chain work in the environment.

Key vocabulary: Animals, ecosystem, habitat, food chain, Producer, Consumer, decomposer, Organism,
energy, sun, food, Living and non-living things.

Common misconceptions for learners: Ways of identifying and addressing these misconceptions:

• Students may think organisms • Students needs to be able to see the food chains a cycling
high up the chain eat everything process where the predator then decompose are including
that is lower on the chain. in the transferring of energy (Food) to the producers to start
the chain again.

Resources/equipment needed:

Class dojo

Cups

Plates

Hula hoop

Strips of papers

PowerPoint
Animal pictures

Four food chain pictures for the assessment.

UNIT: LESSON: TASKS/ACTIVITIES

Resources & Time Starter (10 minutes)

Teacher Will: Students Will:

15 Minutes 1.Today we will learn about what is the 3.Students will have 2 minutes.
ecosystem.
5. Students will share their ideas.
2. What do you think is an ecosystem?
Turn and talk to your friends 9. Students will have to share ideas in their
groups.
4. I will choose at least 2 students
randomly using class dojo 12. For instance: Animals / plants / Water/
sun
6. Tr: will explain to the students what
an ecosystem is by showing them a 15. Students will have to share ideas.
picture of it.
16. SS: will answer from food or sun
7. ecosystem is where we have living
and non-living things. 18: SS: will answer the question.

8. Turn and talk to your friends what do

you see in this picture that is living and
non-living.

10. Tr: Will choose a random student to

answer the questions. Then record their
answers in the board.

11. Tr: Then I will present a picture for

the students that have an environment.
they have to identify the living and non-
living things.

13. We will learn today about food

chain

14. Do animals needs energy to live

and grow? Turn and talk to your
friend

17. How do you think animal get

energy from?
 19. Today we will learn about
something we call food chain.

20. Then I will explain what food

chain is (Producer / Consumer).

Resources & Time Main activities (30 minutes)

4 hula hoops,
Animal pictures

Strips of papers

Small plates

Small strings

Small cups

Colors

15 minutes active Teacher Will: provide 4 hula hoop Students Will:

engagement. & animal pictures Ss: Will have to order the pictures on
the hula hoop based on how the
Will choice 4 students from the food chain is ordered.
class to participate with me.
Ss: The other students in the class
will have to share ideas together in the
group
Centre 2: Master Tr: Will provide the strips of papers Students will have a strip of papers
they have to draw and write the
animal names Then they have to
create a food chain.
Centre 3: Develop Tr: Will provide small plates for the Students have to draw a food chain
students with small strings. with pencil colors. They have to
create a food chain using the plates
Centre 4: Emerging Tr: will provide small cups that Students will have to draw the
have different animals names. animal Then order them then they
have to create a food chain with the
cups.
Resources Plenary (5 minutes)

Teacher Will: Students Will:

1.Recab on the lesson by reminding the 3. Students will share what they did in
students about what is an ecosystem their groups.
is.
 2. Remind the students what is food 5. Students have to participates and talks
chain and what is producer and about the activity that they did.
consumer.

4. Then I will choose a random student

to share what they did in the group.

6. Then I will start with the

assessment.

Learning styles catered for (✓):

Visual Auditory Read/Write Kinaesthetic

Assessment for learning opportunities (✓):

Four Corners students will have four food chain. One of them is in the correct answer. I will observe the
students while the choose the correct wall that have the correct food chain.

Observation Student self-assessment Oral questioning Peer assessment

Quiz Student presentation Written work and Verbal feedback

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