Lesson+Plan+9+Food+Chain

 Grade Level: 2

Unit: Food Chain- Science

Assignment type: Science plus Web 2.0

Lesson objectives:
 * Student will understand the order and necessity of food chains in our ecosystem
 * Student will be able to create a short video about food chains to present to the class
 * Student will understand how to incorporate Web 2.0 interactive online tools to display understanding of lesson

Time required to complete this lesson: 2-3 hours 

Title of lesson: Food Chain Mash Up

Resources/materials needed: Science textbook, ch. 4: Ecosystems and Food Chains Clip art (provided on link) Computer with internet 

Description of lesson: First we will read the chapter on ecosystems and food chains in class and discuss food chains. I will show the students my example of a simple, short mashup.com video showing the basic order of an ocean food chain beginning with a shark and ending with a worm. In class, we will make a mashup video together so that students see how to add photos, videos, music, and effects to their mashup videos. Then, students will work in pairs to create their own short mashup.com videos showing food chain order to show to the class. 

Assignment: Watch this short video I made on mashup.com: media type="custom" key="5472617" Now, after I have showed you in class how to make your own masher.com video go to the link below: Food Chain Clip Art  Find animals or plants in the clip art that you can assemble into your own food chain. Right click on the clip art pictures you want to use and click save. Save the pictures you want to use in your video onto your desktop. Then log in to masher.com with our class log in: user name: duncanv password: snowcats

Then, upload the pictures you chose onto masher.com. Be sure to add music and at least one effect to your video. Add text to each frame as well. When you are finished, save your video. We will watch all of the student videos in class.

Second part of assignment: after we have discussed different types of food chains and watched the class videos, we will have an online class debate. To find out the debate topic and to participate, each student will go to www.edmodo.com and create a student profile. You will need to join the "Ms. Duncan's class debates" group. The code to access this group is: sog383 . Read the debate question for this week and write your response. When everyone in class has responded, read the responses and write your opinion (is it right, is it wrong? what do you think). You will have 3 days to write 2 responses to the debate question about food chains. 

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14.4pt;">Technology used: Web 2.0 tools 

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14.4pt;">The technology used in this lesson changes the teaching / learning in this way: This is not only a lesson in science, it is an Web 2.0 lesson as well. This will be a challenging assignment for students. It will show their understanding of food chains and also of basic computer editing.