“Food Chains & Food Webs” Informational Life Science: Comparing & Contrasting

Lesson Plan Description

Multilingual learners feel supported with guided collaborative conversations using sentence frames to demonstrate their understanding of this complex read based around Earth Science Standards.  In this 5th Grade fully scripted 1 hour lesson plan using the informational Earth Science text, “Food Chains and Food Webs ” your students will:

• Participate in a series of engaging close reading lessons with many opportunities to develop vocabulary through oral language practice
• Ask and answer text dependent questions in order to…
  • Identify key details and determining the meaning of unknown vocabulary using context clues
  • Practice comparing and contrasting

This 1-hour lesson addresses Fifth Grade Life Science NGSS (Next Generation Science Standards):

• LS2.A: Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems The food of almost any kind of animal can be traced back to plants. Organisms are related in food webs in which some animals eat plants for food and other animals eat the animals that eat plants. Some organisms, such as fungi and bacteria, break down dead organisms (both plants or plants parts and animals) and therefore operate as decomposers. Decomposition eventually restores (recycles) some materials back to the soil. Organisms can survive only in environments in which their particular needs are met. A healthy ecosystem is one in which multiple species of different types are each able to meet their needs in a relatively stable web of life. Newly introduced species can damage the balance of an ecosystem. (5-LS2-1)

**Purchasing both this 1 hour and the ELA Bundle: “Food Chains & Food Webs” Informational Life Science Bundle,” will result in duplicate content.