Science WEEKLY LESSON PLANNER

20152016
TERM:1

WEEK OF: 2/11 4/11/2015

TEACHER: Nina /Beverley

FOCUS/THEME: How do living things get

food?

CLASS LEVEL:Grade 2

Term 2

COMMON CORE STANDARDS:

LS.1OrganizationandDevelopment
Students will understand that all life forms, at all levels of organization, use specialized structures and similar processes to meet
lifes needs
LEARNING OBJECTIVE(S):

Students will explain how a food chain works.

TEXTS/ MATERIALS/ RESOURCES:

Workbook ( pp 102- 103), , Powerpoint activities, Worksheets and sorting activities, work station
games and activities, computer
WARMING UP/ LEAD IN / Preview / Review
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Quick brainstorming activity on what students can remember about plant and animal needs and habitats
Quick vocab game using yes/no cards and random word ppt
Group activity putting together a food chain
Fun true and false game to test what students remember about predators and prey and food chains
Remediation
TEACHER INSTRUCTION AND LEARNING ACTIVITIES:
Day 1:
- Remind students of what plants and animals need to survive. Prompt students
about where animals and plants live do they all live in the same place no .
Can you think of some different places where animals live? Elicit form
students what this means about the type of foods etc that they eat. Remind
students about where plants get their food from .

Work in small groups with the

teacher. ( one group assigned
to TA another to the student)
Read and stick activity
instead of independent
writing recording the
different food chains

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Teacher puts some pictures up on the ppt and gets students to talk about
them . Elicits from the children what happens when the animals in the picture
gets hungry what do they eat. Work through it until left with the plant can
the plant eat an animal? no where does the plant get its food from.
Teacher explains what a food chain is and how it will always begin with the
Sun.
Students complete activity putting together a food chain and answering a
cloze exercise.

To end lesson, teacher puts up some correct food chains on the board and
some wrong ones students use yes/ no cards and explain answers.
Day 2:
- Remind students what they carried out in the previous lesson.
- Teacher puts up a food chain and students put it in the correct order.
- Teacher now pays attention to the animals in the food chain and
introduces the terms predator and prey.
- Students look at other chains and work out who is the predator and who
is the prey and their place in the food chain.
- As a plenary students speak about out one thing they learnt about food
chains and predators and prey.

Enrichment
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Day 3: - Students talk about some of the things they learn t in the previous
lesson. Teacher plays a short yes and no game to ensure that the main points
have been understood by all.
- Students are put into learning stations where they carry out various tasks
associated with food chains and prey and predator. Includes making food
chains,, carrying out research on the computer and a treasure hunt.
- At the end of the lesson students report back on what they did and learnt.
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EVIDENCE OF LEARNING (ASSESSMENT):

Ongoing yes/ no cards to gage basic understanding of topics being covered.
Stick it notes
Completed food chains

Structured support during

Term 2
lessons
Differentiated activities
during the work stations

Pairing work where students

use rubric to check each
others answers and to ask
each other questions to
further consolidate learning.
Learning station activities
which will require greater
thinking and explanation

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HOMEWORK: None this week

Term 2

TEACHERS COMMENTS/ REFLECTIONS:

This will be a short week of learning as no school on Sunday, Parents Meeting on Wednesday and Fun Day on
Thursday.
The student will take one or two lessons. If so ICT lesson will be used as an extra Science lesson if available.