I.

OBJECTIVES

At the end of the lesson, the students should be able to;

 .describe a food chain
 Explain the transfer of energy from one organism to another in a food chain;
 Make a simple food chain to show the relationship among producers, consumers and
decomposers.

II. SUBJECT MATTER

Topic : Food Chain

References : Biology 6, Learner’s Module Campo Pia., et Al
2013. Pp. 217-220
Materials. : Pictures of different organisms, laptop, projector,
cartolina, permanent marker and adhesive tape.
Values : Cooperation with the group
Appreciation for life

III. PROCEDURES
Teachers Activity Students Activity
A. Preliminary Activities

Good morning, Class! Good morning, Sir!

How are you today? We are fine, Sir. Thank you.

Okay let us start our day with the guidance of The student will lead the prayer.
the Lord. (call a student)
_____, will you please lead the prayer.

Before you take your seats, please arrange your The students will arrange the chairs and pick-up the
chairs and pick up those papers under and near pieces of paper.
your chair.

Who are absent today? The group leaders will report the absent.
(Roll call by group)

Thank you.

What did we discuss yesterday?

Sir we discussed about the Monfort Bat Cave.

Look on the picture on the screen and identify

which of the following organisms were Crow,
mentioned in the article Monfort bat cave? Rat,
Phyton,
Lizard,
Bat,
Dog,
Cat,
Durian,
Very Good! Durian tree,

Based on the article about Monfort Bat Cave

which of these organisms served as food for the
bat? Durian trees

Very Good!

What could have caused the declined in the

 population of cave dwelling bats?
The decline in the population of cave dwelling bats
was due to human disturbance and destruction of their
Very Good! habitats.

B. Motivation

Let’s now have a game entitled “Jack en’ Eat”.

The mechanics of the game is similar to the
longtime favorite game known as Jack en’ Poy.
The loser will be eaten by the winner. The
winners on the 1st round will play with each
other until we come up with the last man
standing. The last man standing will be the
winner of the game. Are we clear with the
mechanics? Yes, sir

Choose 1 representative in your group to play

the game. Come here in front
Let’s play Jack en’ Eat.
How will you relate the game “Jack en’ Eat” to
the concept of interaction among organisms?
Very Good!
Students will choose their representative and go in
front
Students will play
With our game sir the winner in “Jack en Eat” will eat
the loser until the last man standing. With that we can
see the interaction. The interaction from 1st round up
to the last round we can see the chain like process.
Chain like process of interaction among the
representative of each group leads us to the concept of
food chain.

C. Activity Proper

Let us now watch a video about interaction

among organisms.

After watching the video, you are tasked to

answer the following guide questions:

What is a food chain?

What starts a food chain?

What ends a food chain?

What are the components of a food chain?

Students will watch a video about food chain.

Let us now discuss what you have seen in the
video by answering the guide questions.

Who would like to answer question number 1,

What is a food chain?
A food chain is a linear sequence of organisms “who
eats whom”.

It is a sequence of eating and being eaten through

which nutrients and energy pass through the
producers, consumers, and decomposers.

Each part of a food chain is a link connected to other

links.
Very Good!

How about question number 2, what starts a food

chain? The primary producers start a food chain, sir.

Let’s answer question number 3, what ends a

food chain? The end of a food chain can either be a tertiary
consumer or a decomposer too, sir
And how about question number 4, what are the
components of a food chain? Based on the video the components of a food chain
are the producer, consumer and decomposer.
Very Good!

To further discuss about food chain let us

perform an activity where you will be playing
the role of different organisms.

The teacher will distribute to each group the

materials placed inside an envelope.

Inside the envelopes are pictures of different

organisms which are set up as a headband. You
need to wear those headbands for today’s lesson.

Wear your headbands now and do not remove it

until the end of the class.

Very Good!
Students will wear their headbands
With the headbands that you are wearing. You
will do a role-playing activity that simulates a
food chain.

You will be given 5 minutes to plan your role

play and 3 minutes to perform the role play with
your groupmates.

Do you have any questions?

For scoring your performance you will be

evaluated in terms of the content, the roles you None, sir!
performed in the role play, the group
collaboration during the preparation and your
overall performance.

The teacher will present the rubrics to class via

PowerPoint.

Are we clear?

There’s a countdown timer for our activity. After

5 minutes we will start your performance.
Yes sir!
You may start now.

After 5 minutes

Let’s start the group presentation of your role

play. Students will start their planning

The teacher will randomly call the group who

will present.
Students will present their activity and post their food
Scoring of the performance of the students will chains on the board.
be given after their performance
The highest for our activity is group number
____.

What are the different food chains that you have

mentioned in your role-playing activity?

What did you observe with your food chains?

The teacher will show an energy pyramid to the

class

Observe this energy pyramid!

What are your observations of this energy Students answer may vary.
pyramid?

Every level in the energy pyramid is equivalent Students will observe the energy pyramid
to our trophic levels in ecosystem.

What is the first trophic level?

What is a primary producer? Students answer may vary

The primary producer, Sir!

Very Good!
Primary producers are organisms that acquire their
How can they produce their own food? energy from sunlight and materials from nonliving
sources. Also, they absorb water and nutrients to the
Excellent! soil.

In each energy level only 10% can be transferred Primary producers can produce their own food, Sir
to the next trophic level

For example, grasses absorb 25000 kcal. from By the process called photosynthesis, sir
the sunlight, water and nutrients from the soil.
How many kcal. will be absorbed by the primary
consumer from the plant?

Why are they called herbivores?

The primary consumer for example the grasshopper

What organism is the second trophic level? will only absorb 2500 kcal of energy from the plant.

The primary consumer like the grasshopper is an

Very Good! example of a herbivore.

When the secondary consumer, for example the
frog eats the grasshopper how many kcal. will be
absorbed by the secondary consumer from the
primary consumer?
What organism is the third trophic level?
They are called herbivores because they feed on
producers or plants.
The primary consumer which is the grasshopper is
our second trophic level.

Bravo!
 When the tertiary consumer for example the The frog will only absorb 250 kcal of energy from the
snake eats the frog, how many kcal. will be grasshopper.
absorbed by the snake from the frog?

Very Good!

What organism is the fourth trophic level? The secondary consumer which is the frog is our third
trophic level.
What are the different types of consumers?

What is a carnivore? The snake will only absorb 25 kcal of energy from the
frog.

How about an omnivore?

What will happen when the tertiary consumer or The tertiary consumer which is the snake is our fourth
the snake dies? trophic level.

What are decomposers? Consumers can be either an omnivore or carnivore.

A carnivore is an animal that gets food from killing
and eating other animals

An omnivore is a kind of animal that eats either other

animals or plants.

It will be acted upon by decomposers.

The decomposed body of a dead organism can

be a fertilizer of plants that can grow and
produce food. It will become the new primary Decomposers are organisms that break down dead or
producer of a new primary consumer. decaying organisms, and in doing so, they carry out
the natural process of decomposition

Sir, decomposers are heterotrophic, meaning that they

use organic substrates to get their energy, carbon and
nutrients for growth and development

D. Post Activity

Let us now organize the organisms that you are

wearing.

Let’s identify which among them is the primary

producer, primary consumer, secondary
producer, tertiary consumer and decomposers.

The teacher will present the graphic organizer.

Here in front we have the graphic organizer. You

need to put your organisms in the respective
column.

Let’s do it by group. The first group will be the

first to fill up the graphic organizer by putting
the organisms in its respective columns.
Let’s start
 Students will do so.
E. Application/Valuing

What do you think will happen if one organism Students answer may vary
in the food chain become extinct? What will
happen to the producer, consumer, decomposer?
IV. EVALUATION
A. Identify whether it is a producer or a
consumer or a decomposers.

1. Rice oats
2. Snake
3. Chicken
4. Humans Students answer may vary
5. Mushrooms
6. Lion
7. Milkfish
8. Plankton
B. Construct a food chain from the given list of
organisms.
V. ASSIGNMENT
1. Give one example of food chain

2. Illustrate the example chosen on a 1 whole

bond paper (printed or drawing)