LESSON PLAN

NATURE – BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION

Objective: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:

- Explain how plants and animals support each other in the food chain or food web
- Identify human-caused species loss as one of the major current threats to biodiversity
- Explain the species diversity level of biodiversity
- Explain how the disappearance of one species affects other species.

Activity 1: UNDERSTANDING THE FOOD WEBS

Objective: Students are able to talk about the system of the food chains among species.
Materials: Attached worksheet.
Procedure:
Phase 1:
- Divide class into equal groups.
- Explain that students are going to take part in an activity where they have to sort out a
food chain among species and prepare a presentation about it.
- Pre-teach the five typical levels of food chains on the black board (“plants/primary
producers”, “herbivores”, “omnivores”, “carnivores” and “decomposers”).
- Give each group the A4 paper.
- Model an example for the students with the given image and structure on the screen.
- Have students classify each species in their food chain according to these divisions.
- Have students write each species in its appropriate category on the board. There
should be multiple organisms for each level of the food chain.
- Draw lines connecting the various components of each food chain.
- Have groups make presentation about the connection of the food web.
Phase 2:
- Ask students how humans, human activity and human inventions can affect food
web(s) in both positive and negative ways. Students should consider the effects of
various levels – for individual species, for a particular food chain, and for the entire food
web (e.g. felling trees to build homes destroys plant and animal habitats and disrupts an
entire food web; birds have less food to eat when farmers apply insecticides to kill insect
pests).
- Before sharing their answers with the class, have students spend one minute sketching
their answers.

Activity 2: UNDERSTANDING THE BIODIVERSITY LOSS

Objective: Students are able to talk about the cause of extinction of some species in the
biodiversity.

Materials: Attached power point

Procedure:

- Students remain in their groups.

- Explain that students are going to take part in an activity where they will elicit the
cause of the extinction of some species.

- Have each group choose a number on the Power point slide.

- Then, open the number to see the endangered species.

- Group then give the reason why this animal is endangered.

- Listen, check students’ pronunciation and give corrective feedback.

Suggested structure:

Activity 3: