Critters, Creatures and More Anisiya Pallegedara

Plants &Animals

Main Topics

Lesson 1-Who’s Who and What Do They Do?Producers, Consumers and

Decomposers

Lesson 2-Food Webs and Food Chains

Lesson 3How Senses Help Animals Survive

Online Material

This 3-lesson unit incorporates a variety of online resources. The resources not only assist students in the acquirement of information for content areas, but also assists them in obtaining skills pertaining to technology

Filamentality

The use of the unit “Filamentality” website provides a safe web location where all resources can be found

http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/listanimalsva.html

ISTE NETs Standards for Literate Students Process Standards:3d. Research and information fluency- Process data and

report results 5b. Digital citizenship -Exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports collaboration, learning, and productivity

Filamentality Components

Features 5 easy to follow categories corresponding to lessons and activities

1. Producers, Consumers and Decomposers

2. Food Webs and Food Chains Information

3. Animals and Senses

4. Scavenger Hunt Links

5. Games and Movies

Lesson 1

Who’s Who and What

Do They Do?

Objectives

1.To define producers, consumers and decomposers (knowledge)

2.To classify organisms into producers, consumers and decomposers (comprehension)

3.To demonstrate knowledge of producers, consumers and decomposers in an ecosystem handout activity and use findings to construct a bar graph. (application)

Objective 1

To define producers, consumers and decomposers

Using laptop computers in groups, students will access filamentality and use appropriate link to define key words in this lesson.

They will write down definitions in their writer’s notebooks.

Student Performance Based Product

Producer- Plants are called producers. This is because they produce their own food!

Consumer-Animals are called consumers. This is because they cannot make their own food, so they need to consume (eat) plants and/or animals.

Decomposer-Bacteria and fungi are decomposers. They eat decaying matter - dead plants and animals and in the process they break them down and decompose them. When that happens, they release nutrients and mineral salts back into the soil - which then will be used by plants!

Objective 2To classify organisms into producers, consumers

and decomposers

Using a web graphic organizer and various animal cutouts, in groups of 4 students will classify 4 organisms into correct categories

Each student will copy down graphic organizer format and insert their group’s organisms into the web graphic organizer in their writer’s notebook.

Each group will attach their organism pictures on class graphic organizer and share their findings with the rest of the class.

Student Performance Based Product

Objective 3

To demonstrate knowledge of producers, consumers and decomposers in an ecosystem handout activity and use findings to construct a graph

Students will locate and correctly classify all organisms in “The Forest Search” handout by circling producers green, consumers red and decomposers brown.

Afterwards, students will collect data on how many producers, consumers and decomposers they found and using Excel they will create a bar graph showing the number of each type of organism in the handout

Student Performance Based Product

Student Performance Based Product