Lesson Planning

Understand about food chains connecting the plants and animals in the Atlantic. Construct own painted food chains.

Teaching Outcomes
To understand what an ocean food chains are and use scientific language to describe elements within them.
To draw and paint bold outline figures of marine animals and plants.

Children will:

• Understand that plants and animals in the Atlantic Ocean are linked in ‘food chains’, and will have looked at an example of such a chain.
• Appreciate that food chains begin with green plants and end with large predators.
• Understand and used the terms ‘carnivore’, ‘herbivore’, ‘predator’ and ‘prey’ in relation to food chains.
• Construct food chains from cardboard figures.