SETON HILL UNIVERSITY

Lesson Plan Template Explanation

TOPIC
Name
Subject
Grade Level
Date/Duration
Big Ideas
Essential
Questions
Common Core
Standards
Objectives
A-udience
B-ehavior
C-ondition
D-egree
Formative &
Summative
Assessment
EVIDENCE

DETAILS
Miss Stairs
Science
3
45 minutes, 5 days
Plants and animals depend on each other to survive.
How do animals and plants depend on each other to
survive?
What happens if a plant or animal dies off?
4.1.3.D - Identify organisms that are dependent on one
another in a given ecosystem
Individually, the students will be able to show on a chart
a correct food chain with 90% accuracy.

Formative:
Small group conversations with the teacher just
observing and documenting.
Question and answer with the teacher.
Exit slips
Summative:
Each student will show on a chart a full food chain.
Game -- students are in groups and have to run to the
board to place the correct animals and plants in the food
chain one at a time.
ST
21 CENTURY
Smart board
SKILLS
Videos
TECHNOLOGY
Books
ACCOMMODATIO
Carter will use a computer to drag and paste animals
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and plants into a food chain
MODIFICATIONS
Carter can verbally tell me where each item will go, and
ADAPTATIONS
I will help him write it down on the paper.
If Carter would like to try to cut and paste I will assist
him by holding the paper and also show him ways he
can cut the paper by himself.
SUPERVISING
TEACHERS
SIGNATURE
Note:
Before students can begin the lesson plan step-by-step procedures on the next page,
they are required to complete this first page and receive the supervisor/professors
signature. The Education Departments goal is to have students address critical
components of the learning before they begin choosing activities.
Resources used:

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www.pdesas.org
www.p21.org
www.iste.org

LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE STEP-BY-STEP PROCEDURES

RATIONALE for the
Learning Plan

Introduction

Explicit
Instructions

Lesson Procedure

We will be adding onto the students knowledge about

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ecosystems that they will be talking about for a 9-week
period. This lesson will teach the students how different
animals in each ecosystem thrive on each other for
survival, and without a certain plant or animal others will
die off. The PA standard says Identify organisms that are
dependent on one another in a given ecosystem, so this
is exactly what we will be doing.
Activating Prior Knowledge
Ask the students what they depend on for survival.
Ask what animals and plants need for survival.
Hook/Lead-In/Anticipatory Set
Watch a video on how plants and animals survive on
each other.
Big Idea Statement
Plants and animals help each other to survive.
Essential Question Statement
How do plants and animals help each other to
survive?
Objective Statement
Each student is going to individually make a correct
food web on a chart with 90% accuracy.
Transition
Play a food web game
Key Vocabulary
Dependent
Food web
Adaptations
Characteristics
Pre Assessment of the Students
Students will get a chart to fill out on where each
plant and animal is on the food chain, and they will
do this without the teachers assistance.
Modeling of the Concept
By using the smart board with the different
ecosystems, arrows, plants, and animals, the teacher
will show them where certain animals and plants go
on their food chain, for each different ecosystem,
and explain why they are there and not somewhere
else. The teacher will do this for four different
ecosystems.
Guiding the Practice
The teacher will then have the students help her
figure out what order the plants and animals should

Reading Materials
Technology
Equipment
Supplies
Evaluation of the
Learning/Mastery
of the Concept

Closure

Teacher Selfreflection

be in on the smart board by using different animals,

plants, and ecosystems.
The teacher will look for the students understanding
of where the animals and plants go on the
ecosystem putting the stronger animals at the top
and the weaker animals at the bottom.
Providing the Independent Practice
Students will be put into groups of 4-5 to take turns
running up to the board and putting their food chain
in order and whoever gets it right the fastest wins.
Students will then fill out a chart independently
which will be graded for correctness.
Transition
Students will go back to their desks based on who
won the most rounds, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc.
Smart board, white board if no smart board
Videos
Books
Food chain papers/chart
Formal Evaluation
Food chain chart that is graded for correctness
Informal Evaluation
Question and answer. Observation of the students.
See if we need to spend more time on the topic, or if
they fully understand it and can move on.
Summary & Review of the Learning
Go over different food chains and the reasons each
animals or plant is there. Have the students go
around the room and make a large food chain for
one ecosystem.
Homework/Assignments
NA