SEMI DETAILED LESSON PLAN IN SCIENCE

I. OBJECTIVES

At the end of the 30 minutes lesson, the students should be able to:
 Define Food Chain
 Identify proper arrangement of food chain, primary
producers, consumers and decomposers
 Draw and explain food chains and its importance in our
environment

II. SUBJECT MATTER

A. Topic: The Food Chain

B. Reference http://www.vtaide.com/png/foodchains.htm

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/
animals/kidscorner/foodchain/foodchain.ht
m

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subject
s/foodchain/
C. Materials: Laptop, Powerpoint Presentation, Manila Paper,
Coloring Materials

III. PROCEDURE

A. Routinary Activities
1. Prayer
2. Greetings
3. Checking of Attendance
 4. Review

Ecosystem is a community of living organisms (Plants,

Animals, and Humans) in conjunctions with the non-living
components (Air, Sun, Water) of their environment,
interacting as a system.

B. Motivation

The students will be shown a picture of an environment with

different living organisms. They will be asked to identify the living
organisms in the picture and what those living organisms usually
eat and consume that can also be found in the picture.

C. Lesson Proper

Task 1: Lecture-Discussion

The teacher will now present the concept of food chain and its
sub topics.

A food chain is the sequence of who eats whom in a biological

community to obtain nutrition. A food chain starts with plants or
other autotrophs (organisms that make their own food from light
or chemical energy) that are eaten by herbivores (plant-
eaters). The herbivores are eaten by carnivores (meat-eaters).
These are eaten by other carnivores or omnivores. When
organism dies, it is eaten by decomposers and then broken
down and the exchange of energy continues.

A producer is an organism that makes its own food from light

energy (using photosynthesis or chemosynthesis). Most green
plants, many protists and most bacteria are producers.
Producers are the base of the food chain.
A consumer is a living thing that eats other living things to
survive. It cannot make its own food. Primary consumer eats
producers, secondary consumer eats primary consumer and so
on. There are always many more primary consumers than
secondary consumers, etc. This is because that energy is lost
between each level.

A consumer may be classified into three categories namely

herbivore, carnivore and omnivore. Herbivores are animals that
eat plants. Herbivores are also called primary consumers. Most
animals are herbivores. Carnivores are animals that eat meat.
Carnivorous animals often have sharp teeth and powerful jaw.
Omnivores are animals that eat both animals and plants. Some
omnivores include humans, monkeys and marmosets,
chimpanzee and most bears.

A decomposer is an organism that breaks down organic matter.

Some bacteria and fungi and worms are decomposers. What
they leave behind is used by primary producers.

Task 2: Games

The students will be divided into five groups and will be shown
pictures and they will arrange it properly to form a food chain.
They will identify the primary producers, consumers and
decomposers.

Set No. 1

Answer: Grass-Grasshopper-Rat-Snake-Eagle-Worm
Set No. 2

Answer: Algae-Fish-Seal-Shark

Set No. 3

Answer: Corn-Rat-Cat-Mushroom/Fungi

Set No.4

Answer: Plant-Rabbit-Wild Cat-Lion-Worm

Set No. 5

Answer: Algae-Shrimp-Fish-Seal-Polar Bear

 Set No. 6

Answer: Plant-Dragon Fly-Frog-Snake-Human

Set No. 7

Answer: Plants-Caterpillar-Chicken-Monitor Lizard-Worm

D. GENERALIZATION

A food chain shows how each living thing gets its food.
Some animals eat plants and some animals eat other animals.
For example, a simple food chain links the trees & shrubs, the
giraffes (that eat trees & shrubs), and the lions (that eat the
giraffes). Each link in this chain is food for the next link. A food
chain always starts with plant life and ends with an animal.
In a food chain, energy is passed from one link to another.
When a herbivore eats, only a fraction of the energy (that it gets
from the plant food) becomes new body mass; the rest of the
energy is lost as waste or used up by the herbivore to carry out
its life processes (e.g., movement, digestion, reproduction).
Therefore, when the herbivore is eaten by a carnivore, it passes
only a small amount of total energy (that it has received) to the
carnivore. Of the energy transferred from the herbivore to the
 carnivore, some energy will be "wasted" or "used up" by the
carnivore. The carnivore then has to eat many herbivores to get
enough energy to grow.

E. APPLICATION

The students with their respective groups will be given

Manila paper and drawing materials. They will be asked to draw
their own food chain. Afterwards, they will be asked to explain
their drawings.

IV. EVALUATION

A short quiz will be given to the students. They will be asked to

identify and classify primary producers, consumers-herbivore,
carnivore, omnivore and decomposers.

QUIZ:
Classify The Following:
Plants Carabao Cobra
Humans Mushrooms Goat
Bacteria Lion Panda
Fungi Tiger Spider
Algae Giraffe Deer
Corn Worms Chicken
Palay Cat Shark
Horse Dog Eagle
Trees Aligator Bird
Whale Seahorse Grass
Producers Consumers Decomposers
Herbivore Carnivore Omnivore

V. ASSIGNMENT

No Assignment

Prepared By:

LEONARD C. MAGDANGAL
TCP Batch ‘05