Lesson 1 Content Objective: Students will build background knowledge about the food chain after watching a video and listening to a book about it. Language Objectives: Ss will respond orally to questions after watching a video clip about food chain. (Listening & Speaking) Ss will complete a graphic organizer to illustrate an example of the food chain. (Visual literacy) Materials Pictures cards: horse, giraffe, elephant, zebra, rabbit, cow/ eagle, lion, bear, leopard, tiger/ dog, turkey, pig Venn diagram Discovery Channel:: What is Food Chain? Non-fiction book, “The Food Chain,” (from readinga-z.com) Graphic Organizer, Animal pictures (plant, grasshopper, frog, fish, bear) scissors, glue, marker and color pencils Warm-up ü Ss will look at the pictures of animals on a pocket chart and classify the name of animals to each category: Plant Eater (herbivore), Meat Eater (carnivore), and both (omnivore). Use Venn Diagram to talk about ‘meat eater’ vs ‘plant eater’ Guided Practice ü Use realia to show Ss that a chain is made of links. ü Introduce term “food chain” by watching a video clip (discovery channel: What is Food Chain?). ü T distributes copies of book The Food Chain. Ss will read through and discuss pictures and ideas on each page. Independent Practice ü Ss will be given a graphic organizer and animal pictures. Ss will color and glue the pictures on a graphic organizer of the food chain sequence. ü Ss will orally explain their food chains to the teacher. Lesson 2 Content Objective: Students will build background knowledge about the food chain after watching a video and listening to a book about it. Language Objectives: Ss will write sentences to recall the sequence of events from a non-fiction book. (Writing) Materials: Blank sentence strips, sentence frame Guided Practice ü Students will be given five blank sentence strips. ü Ss will write sentences to show the relationship between a producer and a consumer. ü Ss will be guided to write five sentences in sequential order. The first sentence will be given and Ss will copy or write: The plant grows. ü The sentence frame will be provided: The_________ eats the __________. Independent Practice ü Ss will write four more sentences to describe the picture of the food chain shown in their graphic organizers. ü Ss will read each sentence to sequence all sentence strips in sequential order. ü If time allows, Ss will play food chain games online. http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/games/foodchaingame.htm Food Chain Graphic Organizer Food Chain Pics