Food chains5th level

Anna Mas

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

LinkLink

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”.

2.

Resources provided during the activities:

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.

Assessment activity:

Food chain picture:

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

Link Link

Pictures:

Pictures:

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.