tern Name: Savannah Sadler

Lesson Title (Subject/Topic): Food Chain

Grade: 3rd
Length of Lesson:45 minutes
Date Taught:December 13th, 2017
LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE
In this lesson…
I will show the students a PowerPoint going over the
producers and consumer in the food chain, and complete a
Overview worksheet to show the information they obtained, and
complete a quizlet.

3.5 The student will investigate and understand relationships

among organisms in aquatic and terrestrial food chains. Key
concepts include.
Standards of a) producer, consumer, decomposer;
Learning b) herbivore, carnivore, omnivore; and
c) Predator and prey.

What is a consumer?
What is a producer?
What is an omnivore?
Essential Questions What is an herbivore?
What is a carnivore?
Who starts the food chain?
Students will be able to…
TSW be able to identify the components of a food chain.
Objectives TSW be able to identify the different types of composers.

Necessary Prior Read over textbook pages 25-28 to know everything about
the food chain.
Knowledge
Smartboard, scissors, glue, crayons/colored pencils,
Materials construction paper
 I will ask the students review questions from the lesson my
Introduction/Hook CT taught prior to this lesson.

During this lesson I will show the students a powerpoint I

have made. I will read what the slide says and ask questions
based off of each slide as I go. I will ask questions such as,
Instructional What kind of consumer is this animal?, and I will point to the
picture of the bear, and so on. I have then made a quizlet live
Activities & for the students to participate in. They will work in groups to
Strategies try and answer all of the questions the fastest. After I will go
over every term with the students to see what they obtained
from the lesson.

Producer
Consumer
Herbivore
Key Vocabulary or Omnivore
Concepts Carnivore
Decomposer
Food Chain
The following day the students will be taking an assessment
Assessments on the main subjects from this lesson. The assessment will be
multiple choice and will be around 20 questions.
The students will work on a cut and paste handout. On a
separate piece of construction paper the students will draw a
line down the middle of the paper both ways creating four
Closure Activity boxes. The students will label each square (herbivore,
carnivore, omnivore, and decomposer). The will separate the
different pictures into the boxes. When they are finished they
may color it.
PowerPoint, make sure the board is working.
Accommodations

Resources PowerPoint, Science textbook level 3

Reflection on a Lesson Plan Taught

Virginia Teachers for Tomorrow
Intern Name: Savannah Sadler
Lesson Title (Subecjt/Topc): The Food Chain
Date of Lesson Taught: December 13th, 2017
Cooperating Teacher & School Mrs. Cohen, Luxford Elementary
Grade: 3rd
Time of Day: 11:00

1. What steps did you go through to create this lesson? With whom did you talk, discuss, or edit
your lesson?
I talked with my CT beforehand and we discussed the different lessons that I could teach for the
next week. She gave me the science textbook and showed me what I could go off of.

2. How did the SOLs and Objectives help focus your instruction?
It helped me know exactly what I needed to teach them and what I needed to base my lesson off
of.

3. What parts of the instructional plan worked as you anticipated?

Every part worked just as I thought it would. The kids loved the quizlet, which I knew they
would.

4. What, if any, adjustments needed to be made once you began?

The board was not working at first so I got out the textbooks, and I was going to read from them,
but then the smartboard started working so I continued on the PowerPoint.

5. How well did you anticipate the materials needed?

Most of the materials needed were already in the classroom, so it was pretty easy to get the
needed materials.

6. How effective was the assessment you chose to use? (If no assessment was used, what
will the future assessment be and how will you gauge its effectiveness?)

The students did well on the assessment, only two students scored below an 85%.

7. To what degree do you feel that this lesson was a success? What evidence do you have
for the success of the lesson? (Hint: Student learning is the key to a lesson’s success!)

I feel it was a success because of the scores the students got on their assessments, and how they
knew the answers when we did a review the following day.

8. How did the time spent preparing for your lesson contribute to its success?
I feel like I could’ve come up with a better lesson if I had more time.
9. If you could do this lesson again with the same students, would you do anything
differently? If so, what?
If i could do anything differently, I would make a study guide for after the fact.
10. Any last comments/reflections about your lesson?
Always be confident in your lessons.