How do plants and animals get their food? Learn about where energy comes from, how animals store energy, and aerobic respiration, in a lesson that allows scholars to diagram energy flows. 

Concepts

food energy, living things, food storage, aerobic respiration, oxygen, sugar, carbon dioxide, energy flow

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Additional Tags

science

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Instructional Ideas

• Have learners sort the animals by defense mechanism

Classroom Considerations

• Prior knowledge of photosynthesis is necessary
• Requires access to a small handheld mirror; they can take turns if needed
• Lesson is the fourth in a seven-part series

Pros

• Includes accommodations and extensions
• Provides discussion questions and ideal answers
• Does not require unusual lab equipment

Cons

• None

Common Core

RST.6-8.4