1. STUDY HALL SIT QUIETLY IN YOUR ASSIGNED SEATS GET YOUR BLUE CARD OUT PLACE IT ON YOUR DESK

2. WARM UP  LABEL THE FOLLOWING ORGANISMS AS PRODUCERS, CONSUMERS, DECOMPOSERS  MUSHROOMS  SUNFLOWERS  WORMS  SHARKS  ELEPHANTS  CORN  GET YOUR BLUE CARD OUT & PLACE IT ON YOUR DESK

3. VOLUNTEERS….  DID YOU GET THESE RIGHT?  MUSHROOMS - DECOMPOSERS  SUNFLOWERS - PRODUCERS  WORMS - DECOMPOSERS  SHARKS - CONSUMERS  ELEPHANTS - CONSUMERS  CORN - PRODUCERS

4. WRITE IN NOTEBOOK  Food chains : show how plant life and animal life get bridged together by the things they eat.  Like links of a chain

5. WRITE IN NOTEBOOK  Food chains are important to all life on Earth.  Within the chain, all organisms depend on one another to survive

6. Food Chain Brain Pop  http://www.brainpop.com/science/ecolo gyandbehavior/foodchains/ http://www.brainpop.com/science/ecolo gyandbehavior/foodchains/  Bill Nye: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=- YwW-iWxLr4 Bill Nye: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=- YwW-iWxLr4

8. Activity Time  Now we are going to make a food chain together…  You need to fold your paper so that you have FIVE even sections.

9. Foldable time!  Use the paper in your notebook  Follow along with teacher  Fold it like a hotdog.  Divide the page into 5 equal sections  Wait patiently and silently for further instructions.

10. Draw this on your foldable… Energy Energy returned to the environment energy

11. Mr. Parr song on food chains  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWfE n8J5xKM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWfE n8J5xKM

12. Do we understand…..  On one end of the chain we find plant life; at the other end we can find carnivores.  Example: Tigers eat gazelles, and gazelles eat grass.  These organisms are linked together in a food chain.

13. Do we understand…..  Decomposers connect the ends of the food chains  They are nature’s recyclers  They return nutrients to the soil and environment to be used again

14. 10 MINUTES  COMPLETE QUIET!

15. Quarter 3 Review  How about a round of Jeopardy?

16. Now it’s your turn…  You have 5 minutes….  Write down 1 producer, 3 consumers, and 1 decomposer.  Consumers…think of 1 herbivore, 1 omnivore, and 1 carnivore that belong together (think of things that belong together, like a eating a mouse but DO NOT use that example)  Now write them down in your notebook

17. Now it’s your turn…  You have 1 producer, 3 consumers, and 1 decomposer.  Fold your paper like we did before  Outside:  All 5 flaps are labeled.  All 5 flaps have a drawing.  Energy flow arrows are included.  Inside:  Each type is defined.  You explained your food chain and how the organism fits in it.

18. Role of decomposers  How return nutrients to the environment  Fungi on fallen logs  Mold on bread

19. Bacteria in animal guts  Role of bacteria in guts of animals and plant roots as it helps to recycle matter

20. Do you think worms and insects are decomposers?  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6V0a_7N1 Mw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6V0a_7N1 Mw  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6sFP_7Ve zg

21. Decomposing Rabbit  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6sF P_7Vezg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6sF P_7Vezg

22. Decomposers  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6V0 a_7N1Mw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6V0 a_7N1Mw

23. Weaving the Food Web  Up out of your seats  Let’s form a circle  Let’s behave

24. Carbon Cycle  Water, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and oxygen are substances cycled between the living and non-living environments.