Lamar EoL 1 2016

Lesson Title - Energy Transfer Through Food Chains

1 st Grade Science TEK 1.9c.

Texas Essential Knowledge 1.9c – Gather evidence of interdependence among living

organisms such as energy transfer through food chains and animals using plants for

shelter.

Lesson Explanation –

Explain to students that the food chain is like heading to the grocery store, except

frogs and birds don’t have credit cards! The sun creates the plants, the bugs eat the

plants, the animals eat the bugs. Explain how starting from one point and going

backwards, the start of the food chain begins with the sun and ends with humans.

That it’s a series of organisms that depend on the next as a source of food.

Formative quiz –

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A formative quiz was selected to quickly check the student’s understanding of the

subject. By immediately having the wrong or right answers I will be able to come up

with effective teaching strategies going forward to guide instruction. Even though

my class will all be on the same topic, they will be separated with their

understanding of the concepts. I want to make sure I routinely check for

understanding to make sure they are not behind. Even if a student gets the right

answer once, I’ll phrase the question different ways to get a more complete picture

if they understand the problem.

Energy Transfer Through Food Chains. (n.d.). Retrieved from

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