What to eat in the Atlantic

Topics Reception/Year 1
This unit is part of Oceans and Seas Atlantic Underwater World

Objectives

Science

  • Identify and name a variety of common animals that are carnivores, herbivores and omnivores.
  • Describe how animals obtain their food from plants and other animals, using the idea of a simple food chain, and identify and name different sources of food.

Art

  • Become proficient in drawing, painting, sculpture and other art, craft and design techniques.
  • Use a range of materials creatively to design and make products.
  • Use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imaginations.
  • Develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space.

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.

You Will Need

  • Atlantic Silhouettes (from session 2)
  • Thick cardboard
  • Marker pens

Weblinks

There are no weblinks needed for this session.