Teaching Plan
Teacher Name
Subject Area
Topic
Jenny Schneider
Science
Food chains
Date
Grade
Time
4
15 mins
Students will be able to understand the order of food chains
Learning Objectives
What do you want your
students to learn?
Assessment
How will you know your
students have learned?
Materials
What resources will you need?
Introduction
(how will you “hook”
students? )
Time: 2 min
Have them complete a worksheet that that can fill in a food chain and write
producers and consumers. Then answer the following questions: What
would happen if the producer in the food chain died?, how would this affect
the first order consumer in the food chain?, and what would happen if the
population of the second order consumer increased?
PowerPoint presentation, sticky notes with animals and plants names,
sheets for students to create food chains
What are food chains?
Explain producers – plants
1st order consumer – animals that eat plants
2nd order consumer – animals that eat other animals
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Body
Learning activity or sequence
of activities. )
Time: 10 mins
Show food chain diagram then ask them questions regarding the diagram:
 Which living thing are the producers in this diagram?
 Which living thing are the first order consumers in this diagram?
 Are the first order consumers herbivore, omnivore, or carnivore?
 Which living thing are the Second order consumers in this diagram?
 Are the Second order consumers herbivore, omnivore, or carnivore?
 How does the producers get food?
 Why is the sun important to the food chain?
 What eats the corn?
 What eats the chicken?
 What would happen if the corn were removed from the food chain?
If there is enough time Show the second food chain diagram
Write on the white board producers, 1st order consumers, 2nd order
consumers. Hand out pieces of paper with plants and animals to each
student. Then send students up to the board in groups of 3-4 at a time and
have them put the animals and plants under which they type they think it
belongs. Check to see if all in correct spot if not ask where it should go. Pick a
couple and ask why they are under the type that they are.
Closure
Time: 3 mins
Have students create their our food chains and answer What would happen
if the producer in the food chain died?, how would this affect the first order
consumer in the food chain?, and what would happen if the population of
the second order consumer increased? If they have time.
Notes and Ideas
 Have cut outs of living things and have them make food chains with them.
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List of animals and plants
1. Deer
2. Bunny
3. Wolf
4. Fox
5. Grass
6. Wheat
7. Corn
8. Carrots
9. Lion
10. Tiger
11. Goat
12. Zebra
13. Tree
14. Pig
15. Sheep
16. Grizzly Bear
17. Squirrel
18. Chicken
19. Goose
20. Acorn
21. Owl
22. Mouse
23. Hyena
24. Meerkat
25. Warthog
26. Cheetah
27. Moose
28. Panda Bear
29. Cow
30. Grain
31. Fish
32. Alligator
33. Monkey
34. Eagle
35. Lemur
36. Koala
37.
ED 2500 – Orientation to Teaching
Instructor: Beth Cormier
ED 2500 – Orientation to Teaching
Instructor: Beth Cormier