Grade 1 - Animals and Habitats

Animals and Habitats: Supplemental Guide 4B | Animals of the East African Savanna Habitat 83

Note: Extensions may have activity options that exceed the time

allocated for this part of the lesson. To remain within the time

periods allocated for this portion of the lesson, you will need to

make conscious choices about which activities to include based

on the needs of your students.

Extensions 20 minutes

Food Chain Game

(Instructional Masters 4B-1, 4B-2, and 4B-3) 15 minutes

Note: You may wish to complete Instructional Master 4B-1 at this

time and save the other two worksheets for the Pausing Point and

Domain Review.

 Show image 4A-15: Food chain

• Use Image Cards 8 (Acacia Tree and Savanna Grass), 10
  (Lion), and 11 (Zebra) to create a food chain of the East African
  savanna habitat. Explain the order of the food chain: the grass is
  eaten by the zebra, and the zebra is eaten by the lion. Point out
  that the next picture on the Flip Book image is a picture of soil.
  Explain that when animals, like the lion, die, their bodies become
  part of the soil. Then grass and plants grow out from the soil and
  the food chain starts all over again.


• Invite two or three volunteers to use the Image Cards and Flip
  Book image to tell about the food chain in the savanna.


• Give students Instructional Master 4B-1. Have them cut out the
  images at the bottom and place them in the correct order on the
  food chain diagram.


• Have students explain the food chain to their partner or to their
  home-language peers.

AAnimals of the East nimals of the East

AAfrican Savanna Habitatfrican Savanna Habitat^4 B