A DETAILED LESSON PLAN IN SCIENCE FOR GRADE 4

I. Objectives:
At the end of the lesson the lesson the student will be able to;
a. differentiate food chain from food web,
b. construct food chain and food web,
c. appreciate the importance of the food web in the
ecosystem through ball of yarn.
II. Subject Matter:
a. Topic: Food chain and Food Web
b. References:
https://www.khanacademy.org/science/biology/ecology/intro-to-
ecosystems/a/food-chains-food-webs
c. Materials: pictures, work sheet
III. Procedure
Teachers Activity Students Activity
A. Preparation

Good afternoon children Good afternoon teacher

How are you today? Im fine
Before we start our discussion today
lets have first a prayer.

(teacher will call a child to kead the

prayer)

Angel of God
My guardian Dear Angel of God
To whom his love My guardian Dear
Commits me here To whom his love
Ever this day Commits me here
Be at my side Ever this day
To light and guard Be at my side
To rule and guide To light and guard
Amen To rule and guide
amen
Okay now who is absent?
Very good. Now I have here some none teacher
picture I want you to tell me
what the child doing ok?
(insert classroom rule)
What is the child doing in yes teacher
this picture?

sitting teacher

Very good.
the child is sitting properly.
So our first classroom rules is sit properly.

What is this child doing?

Very good. So for our second rules raise
your hand if you want to talk.
Is that ok? Raising hand teacher
Good.

Yes teacher

What is the child doing in this picture?

Very good. So for our third classroom rule
listen to teacher carefully.
 Listen to teacher

What about this picture?

Very good. For our last classroom rule
keep you mouth zipped. Where not on
the market that need to shout.
Understand?
Very good. Keeping quiet teacher
B. Motivation
Ok this afternoon we will have
another lesson but before that I want
you all to write down what you ate
last night for dinner. Yes teacher
That’s good now I will show a video.
(present a video)
C. Presentation
Now base on the video what will be
our lesson for today?
Very good. Our lesson for today is all Rice
about food chain and food web. Fish and etc.
Base on what you ate last night lets
narrow it down where our food (children participate)
came from. Are you ready?
Lets discuss first the food chain.
What do you think food chain is? Food chain and food web
teacher.
D. Lesson Proper

Very good. Food chain is a linear

sequence of organism through
which nutrients and energy pass as
one organism eats another. Lets
look at the parts of a food chain, Yes teacher.
starting from the bottom from the
producer and moving upward.
Now I want racker to come in front. The base of the food chain lie
the primary producer. Primary
producer are autotrophs and are Food chain teacher is links
most often photosynthetic that’s show who eat and be
organism example are the plants, eaten.
algae or cyanobacteria.
I want you racker to be the main
producer.
Now I want to call lacey in front.
The next stage in the food chain are
the one that eat the primary
producer.
They are called primary consumer.
Primary consumer are usually
herbivores, plant eaters though they
may be algae or bacteria eaters. I
want lacey to be the primary (children participate)
consumers.
Next is the secondary consumers.
Secondary consumers are the meat
eater or the carnivores. I want
mannie to be the secondary
consumer. Please come in front.
Next stage is the tertiary
consumers. Tertiary consumers are
the carnivore eating carnivores like
eagles or big fish. I want jevlyn to
come in front and be the tertiary
consumer.

We can see example here. Racker

will be the green algae who will be
eaten by lacey that is the mollusks
the primary consumer and mannie
will eat lacey as the sculpin fish the
secondary consumers, which will be
eaten by a larger fish chinook
salmon a tertiary consumer.

Each of this categories are called

trophic level. Its reflect how many
transfer of energy and nutrients.
There is another kind of consumers
they are the decompioser. It does
not always appear in drawing of
food chains because food chain is a
simple representation only.
Decomposer are sometimes
considered their own trophic level. (children will participate)
They eat dead matter and waste
product that come from organism
at various other trophic levels, for
instance they consume decaying
plants, the body of a half-eaten
squirrel or the remains of a
deceased eagle. The decomposer
level runs parallel to the standard
hierarachy of primary, secondary
and tertiary consumers. Example
are the fungi and bacteria.
Thank you children. You can now
take your seat.
Food chain is just a simple
presentation of how energy and
nutrients transfer. Now lets tackle
the more complex diagram or
representation of who eats and
whose been eaten by whom.
Organism sometimes eat multiple
types of prey or be eaten by
multiple predators. To represent
these relationship more accurately
we can use a food web.
Food web is a graph that’s show all
the trophic eating related
interactions between various
species in an ecosystem.
This the example of a food web.
 Primary producer marked in green,
primary consumer marked in
orange, secondary consumers in
blue and tertiary consumers in
purple.
d.
Do you any question children? None teacher.
Do you understand what is food
chain and food web? Yes teacher.
On this food web it contains the
food chain that I explain earlier. Can
you find it? (the child point it out)
E. Application
Now, we will have an activity. I will
divide the class into 2 groups. Every
group had this paper with different
kind of organism. All you need to
do
 is cut and construct your own food
chain the first group to fish will
have a price. Do you understand? Yes teacher.

(children participate)

Now lets see if the group 1 got the

right answer.
Very good group 1 now lets look the
work of group 2. Is it correct? Yes teacher.
Very good. Give yourself a round of
applause.
F. Generalization
Now class what is food chain again? Food chain give us a clear cut
picture of who eats whom.
Very good. What about food web? Food web is a graph that’s show
all the trophic eating related
interactions between various
Very good. species in an ecosystem
Do you think knowing the food
 chain and food web is important?
Why? Yes teacher.
Because knowing the food chain
and food web give us an idea
Very good. that theres a stages of the food
IV. Assessment we eat.
Now I want you to answer this
activity sheet. All you have to do
is to write what are the part of a
food chain and on the bottom
write what their job is or what is
their role in the food chain.

Do you have any question?

Okay once you are done pass it None teacher.
on the center and pass it in front.
Okay?
V. Assignment Yes teacher.
(present a picture of a plant)

What is this children?

Very good. This a plant. A plant teacher.
And for your assignment
research what are the part of the
plant and draw a plant on a bond
paper and label it with its part.
Do you have any question?
No teacher.
Okay, so now everyone stand up
and lets have our closing prayer.
(call someone to lead the prayer)
All for thee, all for Jesus, all for
thee. Amen All for thee, all for Jesus, all for
Goodbye children thee. Amen
See you tomorrow Goodbye and thank you teacher
See you tomorrow