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Creating Assignment Template

Subject Science

Grade Level Third Grade

Learning Objective SOL 3.5 The student will investigate and understand relationships
Content Knowledge

The objective of the lesson is what among organisms in aquatic and terrestrial food chains. Key concepts
students will be able to do as they finish
the activity. For this objective, use the include
Standards of Learning (SOL) to say what a) Producer, consumer, decomposer;
you want to focus on.
You can find the SOLs at b) Herbivore, carnivore, omnivore; and
http://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/ c) Predator and prey.
look on the right of the screen for the
subjects and go from there.

 Activity Describe what the learning This activity will get students apply their knowledge of the concepts of
activity will be. What will the students food chains. Following the teacher reviewing the concept of a food
and the teacher be doing? (This includes
what they are doing with the chain, the students will understand terms such as consumer, carnivore,
technology). predator, pray, etc. During instructional time the students and teacher
will collaborate to make a food chain on the white board so that the
students will have an understanding of a food chain prior to making
one on their own. Based on the stated SOL, the students should be
able to apply their knowledge of organisms in aquatic and terrestrial
environments to create a food chain. The students will use the website
www.gliffy.com. This website allows anyone to make diagrams such
as flow charts and network diagrams, either through collaboration or
alone. The students will use this tool to make 2 food chains including:
1 aquatic food chain
1 terrestrial food chain
(At least) 1 producer, 1 primary consumer, 1 secondary
consumer, 1 tertiary consumer, and 1 decomposer
Describe each consumer as a herbivore, carnivore, or
omnivore












Pedagogy

Technology The technology being used in this lesson is called Gliffy:
Name of the device and/or programs
being used. (The description of what the https://www.gliffy.com/go/share/ss2ll59nobeopjynyfms
Technology

students will be doing with the

technology will be included in the
Gliffy is a website which enables people to make or
pedagogy/activity section). collaborate on diagrams, flow charts, network diagrams, and
more.
 Directions for Use 1) Find images of the organisms you would like to use in
Please provide step-by-step instructions
for your students to use the tool to
your food chain on Google images.
complete their assignment. Depending 2) Right click on the images you would like to use and click
on the age of your student, this might
begin with 1. Click on Earth to open the Save image as
Internet. Etc..
3) Save the image to your downloads as image 1, image
2, image 3, etc.
4) Go to www.gliffy.com
5) Click on start free trial
6) Upload the images you found on Google:
a) In the upper left hand corner of the Gliffy website
click File
b) Click on Import to upload your photos to Gliffy
c) Find the images in the downloads section of your
computer.
7) On the left menu of the Gliffy website scroll down until
you see images
8) The images you have uploaded will be in the images
section
9) Click and drag the images over to the grid in the order
that they belong in your food chain.
10) In the same menu that you found your images, you can
also find arrows and other shapes that you can use in
your food chain. You will also click and drag these in
the same way you did with the images.
11) To write in the empty boxes to describe each image as a
producer, consumer, etc., double click the box to add
text.
Link to the example https://www.gliffy.com/go/share/ss2ll59nobeopjynyfms
product
Before you submit, delete the explanatory text (the text in small italics).