Grade Level: 6

Subjects: Science, Reading, and Art

Learner Outcomes:

• Students will gain knowledge of the food chain and how it relates to energy.

Materials: Test Your Knowledge and Background Information worksheets, The Ocean Book, Oceans for Kids, Ecology for Kids

Technology Tools/Courseware: Jewels of the Caribbean Sea video

Teachers Notes:

• Each student will need a copy of the food chain information on page 45 of The Ocean Book.
• The teacher can make transparencies for the Food Chain Bar Graph and the Food Chain Pyramid taken from chapter five of the Ecology for Every Kid book to use on the over head projector.
• The teacher can create a bulletin board by using the same format as the Food  Pyramid on page 47 of the Ocean Book.
• The Ocean Book, Ecology for Every Kid, and Oceans for Every Kid can be checked out from your local library.
• Students will continue to work on comprehension questions, summaries, morning activities, and vocabulary assignment daily.

• The students will view the last half of the video, Jewels of the Caribbean Sea.
• The students will take the Test Your Knowledge pretest to activate their background knowledge of the food chain.
• The students will read and discuss the food chain information in chapter four of The Ocean Book.
• The students will read information concerning the relationships between food producers and food consumers in chapter twenty of the Oceans for Every Kid book. Students will then answer questions related to the food chain.
• The students will complete the Food Chain Bar Graph and the Food Chain Pyramid exercises in chapter five of the Ecology for Every Kid book.
• The students will draw a picture of their sea animal that was chosen in Lesson Two.
• The students will place their sea animals on the bulletin board pyramid within the correct level of the food chain. Then the students will explain to the class why they chose that particular level.
• The students will retake the Test Your Knowledge to access how much knowledge they have gained from the lesson.
• Students will take part in a seafood extravaganza sampling different types of seafood. This feast will take place during the Culminating Activity at the end of the unit in lesson five.

• Students' lessons will be modified according to IEP specifications.

• Students can ask parents for seafood recipes and compile a class seafood cookbook.

• The teacher will access the students' knowledge by listening to their explanation of which level their sea animal falls in the food chain.

• Science: 6.8, 6.10, 6.11, 6.13, 6.16, 6.17, 6.34, and 6.38
• Science Computer/Technology: 6.82, 6.83, 6.90, 6.93, and 6.98
• Reading: 6.20, 6.21, 6.23, 6.27, and 6.28
• Writing: 6.52, 6.53, 6.54, 6.58, 6.60,6.63, 6.64, 6.65, and 6.66
• Spelling: 6.67, and 6.87
• English: 6.126, 6.127, 6.128, and 6.131

References:

• Ecology For Every Kid by Janice VanCleaves
• Oceans For Every Kid  by Janice VanCleaves
• The Ocean Book by John Wiley and Sons
• Jewel of the Caribbean Sea video by National Geographic

                         Anne Bailey Elementary  (Kanawha)
 

                         Lesson 1          Lesson 2          Lesson 3          Lesson 4          Lesson 5