Lesson Planning

Teaching

• Be able to describe how some animals obtain their food from plants and other animals.
• Look more closely at what happens in a food chain. Understand that the sun's energy travels through a food chain and then back into the ground.
• Interpret the transfer of energy in a food chain through a dance, using masks and torches.

Activities

1. Understand that the sun's energy travels through a food chain and that this is called a 'transfer of energy'
2. Interpret the transfer of energy in a food chain through a dance, using masks and torches

Investigation
Look more closely at what happens in a food chain. Understand that the sun's energy travels through a food chain and then back into the ground. (Researching and analysing secondary sources).
Year 1 /2 Interpret the transfer of energy in a food chain through a dance, using masks and torches
Year 2 write an explanation or draw a diagram explaining how the sun's energy is transferred in their group's food chain etc.

Vocabulary
Food chain, predator, habitats, dependence