Content Focus: Informational text comprehension and demonstration of knowledge–summarizing key ideas and details from an informational text.

Language Focus: Speaking, listening, reading, and writing

Vocabulary Focus: Predator, prey, food chain

Standards:

• ELA Anchor Standard R2: Summarize key ideas and details in order to identify central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development.
• ELA Anchor Standard R3: Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text
• Overarching Statement for Reading k-5: Read and comprehend a variety of complex literary and informational texts for many purposes (including enjoyment), including texts that reflect one’s experiences and experiences of others. This includes independently and proficiently understanding grade-level text.
• Theater/Performance: I can plan staging within a small group setting while utilizing stage vocabulary.
• Theater/Performance: I can use gestures, facial expressions, and movement to develop a character in an improvised work.
• Dance: I can create movement using the elements of dance.
• Dance: I can cooperate with my peers to create dances.
• Dance: I can demonstrate knowledge through dance.

 

Arts Integration: Theater and dance

Lesson Objectives:

• Students will be teaching their classmates and teacher about the ocean food chain.
• Within small groups, they will be planning and performing a movement demonstration of the ocean food chain.

 

Activities:

• Teach students about BEST movement (Body, Energy, Space, Time).
• In small groups, students will be planning and performing a movement demonstration of the ocean food chain.
• Within your group, pick one person to be a sea creature from each level of the food chain (photoautotrophs, herbivores, carnivores, top predators).
• Think about how you will become that sea creature through your movement. You will need to be convincing as a sea creature within the food chain. Your group will perform together to show the ocean food chain in “real” life.

 

Engagement/Introduction: 

• Show a video of the ocean food chain.
• Ask students to share information they know about predators and prey within the ocean.
• As a whole class or in small groups, read the article about The Ocean Food Chain.

 

Assessment Procedure: 

• Collect the questioning sheets from students to assess if their answers to the questions about their sea creature/part of the food chain.
• Record each group performance to re-watch and assess if students were properly portraying their sea creature.

Materials: article printed for students, copies of the question sheet for students, space to move

Supporting Documents: Lesson Plan, Question Sheet

Contact: Nicole Mader (madernicole@aasd.k12.wi.us)