Lesson Plan: How Animals Obtain Food
This lesson plan includes the objectives, prerequisites, and exclusions of the lesson teaching students how to identify what different animals eat and describe how they use different body parts to obtain food.
Objectives
Students will be able to
- describe how different body parts help humans to eat food,
- identify what different animals eat and how they find their food,
- describe how different body parts help animals to find and eat food.
Prerequisites
Students should already be familiar with
- body parts of birds,
- body parts of birds that help it obtain food,
- body parts of humans,
- body parts of various animals (limited to common parts such as neck, wings, tongue, etc., not internal body structures),
- the five senses.
Exclusions
Students will not cover
- the digestion of food,
- adaptations of animals such as camouflage,
- specific predator–prey relationships,
- evolution and natural selection.
