Laura Oviedo

Title of the Unit: Ecosystems                                       Course / Level: 5 Primary

5. C for Culture	Learn how a food chain works made up of animals within a typical ecosystem from Castilla y León.
6. Activities	2. Classify animals from Castilla y León into carnivores, herbivores and omnivores. 3. Classify animals from Castilla y León into producers, consumers and decomposers.
7. Tasks	1. Students have to search for animals from their community and print pictures of them. 7. After the tasks carried out in the playground, students in groups make a poster with the animals of their community in order to show how a food chain works and how energy flows between the different levels. 8. Finally, students explain their posters to the rest of the class.
8. Cross-curricular tasks	This tasks are carried out in the playground. 4. Who eats who?: Each student has a picture of an animal. When the teacher says `Lunch time!´ each animal (student) has to chase and hunt another animal they can eat. 5.  Make a food chain: When the teacher says `Food chain!´they have to group together, so that in each group there are producers, consumers (primary, secondary) and decomposers. 6. Where is the energy?: Students of each food chain make a circle, standing in the correct place colck wise (producers, consumers, decomposers). In order that students understand how energy flows within an ecosystem, the pass a ball from the producers to the consumers and then to the decomposers.
10. Resources and materials	Pictures of the animals. Ball. Cardboard. Crayons, felt-tip pens. Web pages.

Diseño basado en el de © Isabel Pérez Torres, con algunas modificaciones: https://coordinacionbilingue.wikispaces.com/