What Do They Eat?
By: Rebekah Cline
A Web Quest About What Animals and Plants Need to Survive
Subject Matter: Life Science
Grade Level: 2nd Grade
Lesson Objective: Learners will demonstrate the ability to identify what different living things need in order to survive.
Content Standard: 2-LS4-1. Make observations of plants and animals to compare the diversity of life in different habitats. www.cde.ca.gov/pd/ca/sc/ngssstandards.asp
Tech Standard: ISTE Standard 3. Research and information fluency.
www.iste.org/docs/pdfs/20-14_ISTE_Standards-S_PDF.pdf
www.iste.org/docs/pdfs/20-14_ISTE_Standards-S_PDF.pdf
Websites: www.google.com
www.about.com
Lesson Plan: Using the above research websites, students will engage in an interactive scavenger hunt through the Internet. Students will actively engage in finding the answers to the questions below. This web quest would tie into an overall lesson plan about biomes and what plants and animals need in order to survive. The utilization of the web quest makes the students active learners in gathering the information versus just having it handed to them in a lecture or textbook reading. In this way, the information will have a greater lasting hold.
Lesson Plan: Using the above research websites, students will engage in an interactive scavenger hunt through the Internet. Students will actively engage in finding the answers to the questions below. This web quest would tie into an overall lesson plan about biomes and what plants and animals need in order to survive. The utilization of the web quest makes the students active learners in gathering the information versus just having it handed to them in a lecture or textbook reading. In this way, the information will have a greater lasting hold.
Essential Question: Plants, insects, and animals all eat a variety of food, but they all drink the same thing. Why do you suppose that is?
Web Quest:
1: What do plants need to grow?
2: What is photosynthesis?
3: What do penguins eat and drink?
4: What do sheep eat and drink?
5: What do anteaters eat and drink?
6: What do humans eat and drink?
7: What is the difference between herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores?
8: What do caterpillars eat and drink?
9: What is metamorphosis?
Assessment: By having the students search for the answers to these
questions, they become a more active part of the learning process. They are more likely to retain the
information because they sought it out versus if it was just lectured and
handed to them. I would assess their
learning by looking at the answers to their webquest and also by having them
write a two paragraph paper about what they learned including their thoughts on
the essential question.
