Who eats what, and why: 3rd to 5th science
Food chains and food webs. A free 3rd to 5th lesson plan with a hook, practice that links to free activities, and an exit ticket. Copy it and make it yours.
Lesson plan
Goal
- Students work toward: food chains and food webs.
Hook (5 min)
- Ask the class: Where does an owl's energy really come from?
- Take two or three answers and write them where everyone can see them.
Teach (15 min)
- Say the big idea in one plain sentence: who eats what, and why.
- Show one example, then one that is not an example, and ask how the two differ.
- Have students tell a partner or a small group the idea in their own words.
Practise (20 min)
- Choose one for the whole class or let groups pick:
- Learn: Food Webs (https://peabody.kids/world/science/science-food-webs)
- Play: Build a food chain (https://peabody.kids/animals/food-chains)
- Learn: Food chains (https://peabody.kids/animals/lessons/food-chains)
- Try: Quiz: living things (https://peabody.kids/practice/sci/life)
Exit ticket (5 min)
- On a slip or aloud: one thing I learned about who eats what, and why, and one question I still have.
- Sort the slips into: got it, nearly, not yet. Start tomorrow with the last pile.
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