Land Quality Issues
Bernita Robinson
Food Chains/Food Webs
Lesson 1
Introduction:
Producers are living things which are able to make their own food. Greenplants make their own food. Consumers depend on food made by green plants.Animals are consumers. Decomposers consume dead material. Microbes are decomposers.In a natural community, the producers, consumers, and decomposers are linkedtogether in a food chains.
Objective:
Students will:
name the producers, consumers, and decomposers in a food chain
Time Allotment:
30 minutes
Materials:
food chain activity sheet, pencil
Procedure:
Prior to lesson the students will apply the KW (prior knowledge and whatthey want to know) of the KWL METHOD.
Introduce the lesson: class will do hands-on activity and discuss resultsconnecting lesson to everyday examples.
Summary: Have students apply the L (what they have learned) of the KWL METHOD.
Home Activity:
Have students discuss the lesson with someone at home.
Lesson Assessment:
Based on completion of activity and what they have (L)earned
Additional Activities:
students can play the ìFood Chain Webî game.
Reading A Graph/Food Chain
Lesson 2
Introduction:
In nature every creature seems to be food for some other creature. All livingthings benefit from belonging to communities and food webs.
Objectives:
Students will:
learn how animals and plants are linked in a community
what will happen if the balance of nature is upset
learn how to read a graph.
Time Allotment:
30 minutes
Materials:
activity sheet, pencil
Procedure:
Prior to lesson the students will apply the KW (prior knowledge and whatthey want to know) of the KWL METHOD.
Introduce the lesson: Class will do hands-on activity and discuss resultsconnecting lesson to everyday examples.
Summary: Have the students apply the L (what they learned) of the KWL METHOD.
Home Activity:
Have students discuss the lesson with someone at home.
Lesson Assessment:
based on completion of activity and what they have (L)earned
Additional Activities:
Students can play ìOh, Deerî game
Ecology Rummy
Lesson 3
Introduction:
Because people also belong and are linked to communities, the food web isvery large. We belong to the same community and food webs as do animalsand plants that live with us. Therefore, we all live or die together.
Objective:
Students will learn how living things are connected to each other, and totheir surroundings.
Time Allotment:
30 minutes
Materials:
deck of 52 cards
Advanced Preparation:
mark cards as outlined in Ecology Rummy direction sheet.
Procedure:
Prior to lesson the students will apply the KW (prior knowledge and whatthey want to know) of the KWL METHOD.
Introduce the lesson: Class will do hands-on activity and discuss resultsconnecting lesson to everyday examples.
Summary: Have students apply the L (what they have learned) of the KWL METHOD.
Home Activity:
Have students discuss the lesson with someone at home.
Lesson Assessment:
Based on what they have (L)earned.
Additional Activities:
Winners of each game can compete in a tournament.
Environment Worksheet
Lesson 4
Introduction:
Your environment includes the air, land, buildings, people, animals, andplants around you. The environment is everything that surrounds and affectsliving things.
Objective:
Students will learn more about their environment
Time Allotment:
30 minute periods
Materials:
Environment worksheet, pencil, soil thermometer
Advanced Preparation:
Arrange walking field trip prior to activity
Procedure:
prior to lesson the students will apply the KW (prior knowledge and whatthey want to know) of the KWL METHOD.
Introduce the lesson: Class will do hands-on activity and discuss resultsconnecting lesson to everyday examples.
Summary: Have students apply the L (what they have learned) of the KWL METHOD.
Home Activity:
Have students discuss the lesson with someone at home.
Lesson Assessment:
Based on completion of activity and what they have (L)earned.
Additional Activities:
Visit other environments and compare environments
Erosion of Soil
Lesson 5
Introduction:
Grass can prevent soil erosion.
Objectives:
Students will learn that soil stripped of its grasses and trees soon washesaway.
Materials:
soil on a board, an equal area of grass on a board, hose
Advanced Preparation:
Should be done outside
Procedure:
Prior to lesson the students will apply the KW (prior knowledge and whatthey want to know) of the KWL METHOD.
Introduce the lesson: Class will do hands-on activity and discuss resultsconnecting lesson to everyday examples.
Summary: Have the students apply the L (what they have learned) of the KWLMETHOD.
Clean Up
Usual soil clean up
Home Activity:
Have students discuss the lesson with someone at home.
Lesson Assessment:
Based on what they have (L)earned.