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Strategic Partnership Project (Key action no 2)
“ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP AND ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS THROUGH FORMAL
AND NON-FORMAL EDUCATION” (ACEAFNE)
CURRICULUM INTEGRATED ACTIVITY
LESSON PLAN
SCHOOL
DATE
TEACHER
CLASS
SUBJECT
CURRICULAR COVERAGE
TOPIC OF THE LESSON
TIME
Lanchester EP Primary School (England)
Spring Term 1 2016
Sarah Jackson
Year 3
Science (Life on Land: 15 ~ Rainforests)
Science / Geography
Food chains
1 hour (formal lesson)
OBJECTIVES
 Children to create food chains using living things found in rainforest
TEACHING STRATEGIES
 Presentation
 Partner talk
 Independent work
TEACHING METHOD
 Whole class
 Independent task
ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION
 What living things do we know about in the rainforest? Gather ideas and discuss.
 Run through PPT which describes several living things found in the rainforest.
 What is a food chain? Discuss using PPT.
 Use website to drag and drop living things into a food chain.
 Demonstrate task.
 Task: Chn to work independently to create their own rainforest food chains using given
creatures to cut and stick.
ACTIVITY ASSESSMENT
 A good lesson to revise food chains and also to give chn more information about the living
things we find in a rainforest.
STUDENTS‟ IMPACT *
 Greater knowledge of food chains and how to construct them.
CONCLUSIONS AS TO THE STUDENTS‟ BEHAVIOUR, INTEREST, ACTIVITY:
 Chn enjoyed finding out about different living things in the rainforest and what they eat.
 Some chn required support with putting living things in the correct order in a food chain.
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