Lesson 4 8A1 Food Web
Lesson 4 8A1 Food Web
Lesson 4 8A1 Food Web
GRADE: 8A1
DURATION: 1 week
ATTAINMENT TARGET:
BENCHMARKS:
Students should:
4. Explain the energy flow through food chains and food webs.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:
Cognitive
At the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
1. Differentiate between a food web and a food chain with 100% accuracy.
2. Identify different organisms in terrestrial and aquatic food webs with 100% accuracy.
Psychomotor
2. Construct a food web with a list of aquatic or terrestrial plants and animals.
Affective
2. Express curiosity and enthusiasm for learning about the Food web.
KEY SKILLS
Learning, Presentation
KEY VOCABULARY: Food web, Food chain, Producer, Consumer, Primary Consumer,
Carnivore, Omnivore, Decomposers, Trophic Level, Energy chain, Aquatic food web, terrestrial
students. Active engagement between students and teachers can benefit diverse learners
by providing them with opportunities to contribute and share their perspective. This
concepts and it will be used to allow students to explore the concepts. Students will be
provided with pictures of different animals and plants to create a food web. Additionally,
CONTENT
on land.
Aquatic Food Chain – An aquatic food chain is a food chain which comprises of animals in the
water.
Energy Transfer in Food Chains –Energy is transferred between trophic levels when one
organism eats another and gets the energy-rich molecules from its prey's body.
PREDATOR PREY
PRIOR LEARNING
LEARNING OUTCOME
ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
1. Identify, remember, and grasp the meaning of the concept being taught.
ENGAGEMENT
Students will be instructed to create a food chain with different plants and
animals. Afterwards, students will be instructed to merge their food chain with another person’s.
This will result in students going in pairs. Each group will be evaluated by the teacher to see how
they are doing. After this, students will be asked to describe how their food chain looks after
merging with others. Based on their responses, students will be informed that the topic will be
food webs. Finally, students will be asked what the difference between a food chain and a food
web is.
EXPLORATION
For this assignment, students will work in the same group they were in during the
engagement activity. Students will be shown an example of an aquatic food chain and a
terrestrial food chain. Afterwards, students will be given a list of aquatic animals and a list of
terrestrial animals to make a food web with. One person from the group will pick a card from the
mystery box that will tell them whether they will make an aquatic food web or a terrestrial food
web.
For Aquatic: Seaweed, water lily, snail, Parrotfish, shrimp, frog, big fish, Shark, crab
For Terrestrial: Grass, Corn, grasshopper, cat, mouse, cows, lions, caterpillars, snake
EXPLANATION
Each group's food web will be observed and corrected if necessary. The class will discuss
food webs and the two types of food webs. Students will be shown different examples of aquatic
food webs and terrestrial food webs. Students will be introduced to predators and prey in a food
web, and from the food web they have made, they will identify the predators and prey. Students
will be asked questions, and if there are any misconceptions, time will be taken to clear them up.
ELABORATION
In the same group, students will receive a list of animals that they will separate into
Terrestrial or Aquatic. They will write individual plants or animals on a sticky note and paste
them under the heading which will show Terrestrial Animal and Plant, and Aquatic Animals and
Plants. This will assist students in knowing more about different animals and plants to create
EVALUATION
Students will be given questions to answer based on what they have learnt.
Instruction: In the given food web of a terrestrial ecosystem, answer the following
questions.
a) Identify five food chains. (5 marks) Ans:
6. Green Plant --- Mouse --- Snake --- Wild Cat --- Lion
b) List all the organisms that eat the Mouse. (3 marks) Ans: Wild Cat, Owl, and Snake
c) Name the Producer in the food web. (1 mark) Ans: Green Plant
d) List the Animals who are Final Consumer. (3 marks) Ans: Owl, Kite and Lion
e) What organisms eats the Green Plant? (3 mark) Ans: Rabbit, Goat, and Mouse
f) What would happen to the Lon if all the Goats died? (1 mark) Ans: It would only eat the
Total: 16 marks
EXTENDED LEARNING: Students will be instructed to research more about Aquatic food