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Paul University Dumaguete

College of Arts and Education

Prepared by: Isa Marie Gravador

I. Objectives

At the end of the lesson, the Grade 8 students will be able to:

a. describe the energy transfer in a food chain;
b. construct a food chain; and
c. appreciate the importance of food chain through a drawing.

II. Subject Matter

Topic: “Food Chain”

III. LESSON PROPER

Teacher’s Activity Student’s Activity

A. ENGAGING ACTIVITY

Motivation

Do you know what is this class? (Showing a Yes miss! It is actually a fried chicken.
picture)

Very good! Now, where do you think it gets They get energy from the plants that they
its energy? eat.

Very good! Now where does the plants gets Plants gets its energy from the Sun!
its energy?

Very good! Now lastly, who needs the energy It is us humans!
from the chicken? Or who usually consume
fried chicken?

Very good, now base from the formed It is all about FOOD CHAIN!
diagram, what is it all about?

B. INSTRUCTION/DELIVERY


Now, what is a food chain class? Base from (Student’s response)
the diagram.

Very good!

Food Chain
• THE FLOW OF ENERGY IN ORGANISMS
• ILLUSTRATE THE TRANSFER OF
ENERGY FROM ONE ORGANISM TO
ANOTHER
• SHOWS HOW TROPHIC LEVELS ARE
LINKED

Who can give examples of food chain? (Student’s response)

Very good! Do you know class that each
organism in a food chain is a trophic level? I
know that you are already familiar with it in
your Grade 7 lesson.

Trophic Level

For now, I want you to group yourselves into
4.

Then, please proceed to your respective
groups.

Each group will be given a certain trophic (Student’s brainstorming)
level. You are given 3 minutes to discuss with
your group what is your assigned trophic
level. Then have one representative to
discuss it here on front.

Group 1- Producer
Group 2- Primary Consumer
Group 3- Secondary and Tertiary Consumer
Group 4- Decomposer

Times up! Let us now listen the (Student’s discussion)
representatives per group.

Very good class!

Now, I want to show you the Trophic
Pyramid. It also has examples per trophic
level.

Another way of representing the flow of
energy from one organism to another is
through the Pyramid of Energy.

What have you noticed on the energy per It decreases miss.
level as you go up in the pyramid class?

Very good! It is because of the 10% Rule.
It means that when energy is passed in
an ecosystem from one trophic level to the
next, only ten percent of the energy will be
passed on.

Then to summarize what we have discussed, None miss.
we have the flow of energy transfer in an
ecosystem.

Do you have any questions regarding on our
topic class?

Okay.

C. UNWRAPPING

Now, with the same groupings, you will have
two tasks to accomplish:

First, you will construct a food chain, from
the producer up to the tertiary consumer,
wherein you are the organisms representing
the food chain. You will have a hat-like item (Student’s performing the activity)
and you need to write the name of the
species on the space provided. (10 pts)

Second, you will draw the importance of the
food chain. Then have one representative to
explain your work. (20 pts)

You are only given 10 minutes to
accomplished the two tasks.

For the first task, it is equivalent to 10 points
if it is correctly constructed with complete
trophic levels (producer-tertiary consumer), i

The drawing will be graded based on the
rubric below:

Criteria Percentage
Content 30%
Explanation 30%
Creativity 15%
Neatness 15%
Cooperation 10%

D. LEARNING ASSESSMENT

In a ½ sheet of paper, answer the following:

I.
1. Construct a food chain.
2. Draw the trophic pyramid.


IV. Assignment

In a ¼ sheet of paper, answer the following questions:

1. What is biogeochemical cycle?
2. Give at least 2 biogeochemical cycles and explain each cycle.

V. REFERENCES

Reference: Lim, A. B. et al. (2015). SCIENCE for the 21st Century Learner. Philippines: DIWA
Learning Systems Inc.