Nabin Duthraj #3 Ecosystem 30 Minutes

Grade six/Science

Lesson: Producer, consumer, predator, and prey in food chains

Unit Overview
Main Idea (Claim) Summative Assessment

Producers, consumers, and decomposers Quiz

(Students will learn how energy flow ties
together the organisms in an ecosystem.)

Guiding Questions Objectives (know/understand/do/value)

What is food chain? The student will be able to
What is producers? Identify species as producer, consumers,
What is photosynthesis? and decomposers.
What is consumers? Explain how humans play a role in the
What is decomposers? food chain
Where do plants and animals get their
energy?
How humans play a role in the food
chain?
Time Instructional Procedures and Strategies
5 Beginning the Lesson
minutes Greetings!
Tell objectives and we are going to review
Ask students what you eat for lunch and why do we need to eat? What is the
source for the food that you just ate?
Tell them organisms need energy to move, grow, and keep warm.
Tell them animals, including humans, cannot make their own food so they need to
consume (eat) plants or other animals to get the foodstuffs their bodies need.
15
minutes Developing the Lesson
What is Autotrophs? Primary producers. Ask students first.
- Autotrophs are organisms that can produce their own food from the substances
available in their surroundings using light (photosynthesis) or chemical energy
(chemosynthesis).
- Ask examples; plants, algae, and some bacteria. They produce their own food
for energy.
- Ask, why are green plants called producers? Because they make their own
food.
Ask students Autotrophs depends on other organism for their food or not?
- No
What is photosynthesis?
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- The process by which plants use sunlight to make their own food is called
photosynthesis.
What is Heterotrophs? Consumers?
- All animals in a food chain are consumers because they eat plants or other
animals. There are different levels of consumers in most food chains, with
smaller consumers eating and then being eaten themselves by larger
consumers.
- Consumers cannot synthesize their own food and rely on other organisms.
They cannot produce their own food.
- They are secondary and tertiary food chain level.
- Examples; herbivores, omnivores, and carnivores.
- Primary consumers; - a rabbit that eats grass
- Secondary consumers; - a snake eats rabbits -owl eats snakes
- Tertiary consumers are eaten by quaternary consumers; - hawk that eats owls
Each food chain ends with a top predator, and animal with not natural enemies (like an
alligator, hawk, or polar bear)

What is decomposers?
- All food chains start with a producer (plants). The top consumers in most food
chains are not eaten by other animals but they do die eventually. When a plant
or animal dies, its remains are broken down or as bacteria or fungi.
Decomposers are the last link in most food chains.

Ask where do plants and animals get their energy?

- Through the process of photosynthesis, plants harness the sun's energy and in
so doing make many forms of lifeincluding human lifepossible.

What is food chain?

- Food chain is the sequence of who eats whom in a biological community (an
ecosystem) to obtain nutrition. A food chain starts with the primary energy
source, usually the sun or boiling hot deep sea vents.

What role does human play in the food chain?

- Let say, there are plants, insect, mouse, and owl. What if human kill all the owl?
There will be mouse all over the place.
10
minutes Closing the Lesson.
Tell them energy comes from the sun, get captured by plants, and is then
transferred from organism to organism.
Quiz time (4-5 Minutes)
After quiz, ask students to share their answer and if they make mistake, tell them
to write correct answer with different color pen
Collect the quiz
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Formative Assessment Differentiation

Ask what can a producer do that a Show pictures of food chain
consumer cannot? Assess students learning using formative
Ask questions and let students speak assessment.

Resources
Science text book, PowerPoint (Pictures), and web

Biblical world view/framework: Teacher will tell it in the end of the class.

Genesis 1:25New International Version (NIV)

25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and
all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it
was good.

God created everything including animals, plants, and small insect. So, we as a rational animal
need to take care for them.

Quiz: Down below.

Name___________________________ Date________________________

1. How do decomposers get their food?

a. Hunting and killing prey for food
b. Absorbing food from dead organisms
c. Changing carbon dioxide and water into food
d. Producing food from oxygen and sunlight

2. How are the living creatures in an ecosystem linked?

A. By what they eat
B. By how they breathe
C. By their size
D. By their species

3. What can you infer from the fact that the disappearance of just one species can disrupt an
entire food chain?
A. Every food chain depends entirely on a single species
B. Food chains are extremely fragile
C. Food chains can regenerate on their own
D. Food chains would not exist without human

4. How is a food web different from a food chain?

A. Food webs contain only producers, not consumers
B. Food webs do not include decomposers
C. Food webs contain many different, linked food chains
D. Food webs exist in aquatic environments; food chains exist in terrestrial
environments

5. Through what process do producers make their own food?

A. Parthenogenesis
B. Photosynthesis
C. Meiosis
D. Mitosis

6. What role do you play in the food web?

A. Producer
B. Consumer
C. Decomposer
D. Human
7. How might a lack of sunlight disrupt the food web?
A. It would cause consumers to consume less
B. It would prevent decomposers from decomposing matter
C. It would prevent producers from producing nutrients
D. It would not disrupt the food web at all

8. How are primary consumers different from secondary consumers?

A. Primary consumers eat only plants: secondary consumers eat other consumers
B. Primary consumers eat other consumers; secondary consumers eat only plants
C. Primary consumers eat plants and other consumers; secondary consumers eat
plants and decompose matter
D. Primary consumers eat plants and decompose matter; secondary consumers eat
plants and other consumers

9. Sheep are herbivorous. What can you infer from this?

A. They are primary consumers
B. They are producers
C. They are secondary consumers
D. They are decomposers
E.
10. Differentiate between autotrophs and heterotrophs and how they receive their energy to
survive.