Author: sperezb

Food Chain

5th Grade Food Chain
TEKS:

112.16.

(9) Organisms and environments. The student knows that there are relationships, systems, and cycles within environments. The student is expected to:

(B) describe how the flow of energy derived from the Sun, used by producers to create their own food, is transferred through a food chain and food web to consumers and decomposers

Link:

http://www.goldridge08.com/foodchain.htm

Summary:

Students will go through this interactive presentation about the food chain. They will move their mouse over the key terms in a food chain and learn more about each one. Once they have reviewed the terms, they will select a habitat and complete the food chain.

Instructional Strategy:

After completing the food chains, they will then create their own. Students will choose decomposers, producers, and consumers and make their own drawing. Their food chain will be interactive and made for other students to put together. They will leave blanks and have cut outs of the decomposers, producers and consumers. Then students will trade food chains and complete the different food chains. This activity will give students more practice and a better understanding of the key terms.

Walter Dean Myers

Walter Dean Myers is an African American author who writes young adult literature. He is a New York Times bestselling author of more than eighty books for children and young adults. He mainly writes about urban youth struggles and African American teens. Following his success with young adult literature, Myers has branched out to works of nonfiction including topics of black history. In 2012, he was named National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. Appointees travel around the country for a two-year term and travel around the country promoting the importance of fiction and nonfiction in the lives of young people. Walter Dean Myers theme for his term is “Reading is not optional.”

Tell Me A Scary Story… But Not Too Scary!

By: Carl Reiner

I selected this book because I found it to be very entertaining and the illustrations in the book were wonderfully done. It had me hooked on the first few pages. It is definitely a great book to read to children in grades 2nd-4th during the month of October. It can also be used to teach about how to write scary stories and the elements required to create a great spooky tale. Overall, I think it is worth checking out and a fun read for students.

Here is a snippet of the book:

“I WAS TRAPPED! Suddenly, the light went out… I heard a door creak… and then… strange, scary noises came out of the dark…

Something with red beams of light shooting from its eyes was coming down the basement stairs. It came closer and closer.. the hair on the back of my neck was sticking straight out. I finally saw it— and it was alive!”