Critters, Creatures and More Anisiya Pallegedara
Plants &Animals
Main Topics
Lesson 1-Who’s Who and What Do They Do?Producers, Consumers and
Decomposers
Lesson 2-Food Webs and Food Chains
Lesson 3How Senses Help Animals Survive
Online Material
This 3-lesson unit incorporates a variety of online resources. The resources not only assist students in the acquirement of information for content areas, but also assists them in obtaining skills pertaining to technology
Filamentality
The use of the unit “Filamentality” website provides a safe web location where all resources can be found
http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/listanimalsva.html
ISTE NETs Standards for Literate Students Process Standards:3d. Research and information fluency- Process data and
report results 5b. Digital citizenship -Exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports collaboration, learning, and productivity
Filamentality Components
Features 5 easy to follow categories corresponding to lessons and activities
1. Producers, Consumers and Decomposers
2. Food Webs and Food Chains Information
3. Animals and Senses
4. Scavenger Hunt Links
5. Games and Movies
Lesson 1
Who’s Who and What
Do They Do?
Objectives
1.To define producers, consumers and decomposers (knowledge)
2.To classify organisms into producers, consumers and decomposers (comprehension)
3.To demonstrate knowledge of producers, consumers and decomposers in an ecosystem handout activity and use findings to construct a bar graph. (application)
Objective 1
To define producers, consumers and decomposers
Using laptop computers in groups, students will access filamentality and use appropriate link to define key words in this lesson.
They will write down definitions in their writer’s notebooks.
Student Performance Based Product
Producer- Plants are called producers. This is because they produce their own food!
Consumer-Animals are called consumers. This is because they cannot make their own food, so they need to consume (eat) plants and/or animals.
Decomposer-Bacteria and fungi are decomposers. They eat decaying matter - dead plants and animals and in the process they break them down and decompose them. When that happens, they release nutrients and mineral salts back into the soil - which then will be used by plants!
Objective 2To classify organisms into producers, consumers
and decomposers
Using a web graphic organizer and various animal cutouts, in groups of 4 students will classify 4 organisms into correct categories
Each student will copy down graphic organizer format and insert their group’s organisms into the web graphic organizer in their writer’s notebook.
Each group will attach their organism pictures on class graphic organizer and share their findings with the rest of the class.
Student Performance Based Product
Objective 3
To demonstrate knowledge of producers, consumers and decomposers in an ecosystem handout activity and use findings to construct a graph
Students will locate and correctly classify all organisms in “The Forest Search” handout by circling producers green, consumers red and decomposers brown.
Afterwards, students will collect data on how many producers, consumers and decomposers they found and using Excel they will create a bar graph showing the number of each type of organism in the handout
Student Performance Based Product
Student Performance Based Product