Teacher: Gabi Held, Becca Grade: 3rd Grade Date(s): 11/28

Conlisk, Olivia Smith

11/30

Unit Title: Food Webs Experiment: Students will put together a food chain on a piece of
string and label what each category the animals are in.

Essential Question(s): What is a producer?

What is a herbivore?

What is a carnivore?

What is an omnivore?

What is a scavenger?

Materials/Resources Essential Vocabulary

Teacher: Student:
● Slides ● Food chain Producer, Consumer
● Food chain answer worksheets (Primary, Secondary,
sheet ● String Tertiary), Biome,
● Pencil Habitat, Omnivore,
● Scissors
Herbivore, Carnivore,
● Markers/crayons
food web

Learning Experience
Essential Standards:

Know Atom:
● Asking questions (for science) and defining problems (for
engineering)
○ Students use two different food webs to answer the
question of how energy and matter move through
tropical and desert biomes
● Developing and using models
○ Students construct model food chains to trace how
energy flowers from the sun to producers and then
consumers and decomposers.

I Can Statement(s): I can construct a food web, demonstrating how

energy and matter move through tropical and desert environments.

Engage: Activating Strategy/Hook:

PowerPoint, pictures, worksheet, video, questions
1. Show students the woodlands example on the
PowerPoint
2. Walk the students through critical vocabulary on the
PowerPoint.

Explore: Learning Experiences

● Hand out animal worksheets for the students.
● Students must label each of the animals
○ Producer, consumer, omnivore, herbivore
● Students must cut out the animals
● Students will place the plants/animals on the string in the
order that they would go on a food chain.
● Students can color in the plants/animals if they have time.

Explain: Learning Experiences

● Why did you put these in the order that you did?
● How did you know to put these plants/animals in this order?
 Elaborate: Extending & Defining
● Write three sentences about why you chose to put these
plants and animals in the order that you did.
● Some helpful words will be producer, consumer, omnivore
and herbivore

Evaluate: Summarizing Strategy

● What is a producer?
● What is a consumer?
● What is an omnivore?
● What is a herbivore?
● What is one thing that you learned today?

Differentiation Strategies
Extension
Intervention Language Development

How might these food chains

interact? What is the same?
What is different ?

What might it be called when

food chains intersect?

Assessment(s):
● Students will have completed a food chain.
● Students will have written three sentences telling us what they know about the desert food
chain.

Teacher Reflection: (Next steps?)