food chains (5th level)
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Introduction
I decided to implement a lesson about food chains to 5th level.
As you are going to see after, I added some changes when I implemented it.
Lesson plan
Resources provided during the activities:
1. Introductory text:
“ All living things need food to give them the energy to grow and move. A food chain shows how each living thing gets its food. It shows who eats whom”.
Scafolding:
What happens if ________ disappears?
There will be a lot of ______
The ______ won’t have anything to eat
Assessment activity:
Look at the food chain picture and complete:
What happens if the snake disappears?
There will be a lot of ______
The ______ won’t have anything to eat.
What happens if insects disappear?
There will be a lot of ______
The ______ won’t have anything to eat.
Changes during the implementation: Activitytitle
1-Brainstorming: Food
chainIthappenedthesameIhadplanned and students
exposedgoodideas.
2- Photocopy and foodchainexplanation
IrealizedthatIwasdifficultfor the students to
understandwhathappenedifamemberofthefood
chain disappears. Seeingthis and after myexplanation,Iaskedthem
totalkaboutthisinpairsand to write their own
reflections.After3minutes,theyhadtoexposeittothe
restoftheclass.3-BBCgame
It was quicker than Iexpectedandthemajority
onlyneededtenminutestocompleteit.
4- What happens if the
____disappears?
Time
10
min
18min
10
min
10
min
Description
Theteacheraskswhatthey
thinkafoodchaincouldbe.Afterlisteningsomeideasandwritingthemonthe
board,theteacherreadsatext(youcanfinditinthe
nextpage).
Onceseeingwhatisafoodchain, the teacherhands
outafoodchainphotocopyand talks about the
different concepts(consumer,producer,etc.)
Afterseeingthis,theystarttotalkaboutwhathappensifanelementofthechain
disappears andwhat aretheconsequences.
Theyplaythiseducational
game in pairs:http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/science/living_things/food_chains/play/
Childrenhavetolookata
food chain and answersome questions. They
workedinpairsbecauseIpreferred theycollaborated.
Interaction
T-Ss
T-S/Ss-Ss
S-S
T-S/S-S
Skills
R/S/I
L/R/I
S/I
W
Materials
Text
Photocopy1
Onlineresource:http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/science/living_things/food_chains/play/Photocopy2
Reflections:
• The more you practice, the more you learn.
The practise helps you to improve. In my case, I changed the last activity because I though that students didn’t have enough experience working about food chains in order to do that activity alone. Some of them were able but others not and there was no sense in discouraging them (in case they realised they couldn’t do it by themselves). They did it in pairs and it worked.
• This activity was a nice opportunity to prepare, implement and reflect about a CLIL lesson.
• I learnt about the great amount of CLIL resources that exist.