The+Food+Chain+-+3rd+Grade


**Michelle Groth St. Bethlehem Elementary School Clarksville, TN

TN Standards:

GLE 0307.3.1 Describe how animals use food to obtain energy and materials for growth and repair.** ** Checks for Understanding 03.07.3.1 Label a diagram to illustrate the food relationships that exist between plants and animals. 03.07.3.2 Create a chart to show how plants and animals satisfy their energy requirements. ** **0307.3.3 Identify the structures used by different plants and animals to meet their basic energy requirements. 0307.3.4 Use a piece of text to obtain basic information about how plants and animals obtain food.

Procedure

The students will use [|Voicethread] to show their understanding of the food chain.

Vocabulary: **

  
 * ====**__prey:__ a living thing that is hunted and eaten by other living things. **==== ||  ||
 * **__predator:__ a living thing that hunts and eats other living things. ** ||  ||
 * **__consumer:__ a living thing that cannot make its own food and must eat other living things. Animals are consumers. ** ||
 * **__producer:__ a living thing that makes its own food. Plants are producers. ** ||
 * **__food chain:__ A food chain shows how each living thing gets food, and how nutrients and energy are passed from creature to creature. Food chains begin with plant-life, and end with animal-life. Some animals eat plants, some animals eat other animals. ** ||


 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> **The students will do a [|Google] Image Search to locate images of the sun, a plant, an insect, a small animal (such as a frog, or rat), a snake, and a large bird (such as an owl or an eagle).**
 * 2) ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: left; display: block;">**The students will upload these images into a new Voicethread. They will then add notes or voice comments (using the correct vocabulary words) to each image describing the image and its relationship in this food chain.** ====
 * 3) **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Teacher-created sample Voicethread showing this project can be found [|here]. **

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: left; display: block;"> Additional Resources:

[|Food Chain Game] [|Producers and Consumers Game] [|Food Chain Movie] [|More Games] [|More info] [|Food Chain Simulation] [|Food Chain Quiz] [|Food Chain Test] [|Food Chain Sites]