How Do Starfish Eat?
Updated: Oct 22
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A2
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50 min
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25 slides
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kids &teens
This ESL Lesson Plan How Do Starfish Eat introduces A2 learners to the world of marine life through an engaging reading and discussion activity. Students learn how starfish eat and move, expand their vocabulary about sea animals.
Outcomes and skills:
Improved their understanding of sea animals and their habits.
Expanded their vocabulary related to the ocean and marine life.
Vocabulary
stomach
push out
squeeze
mussel
clam
digest
blowhole
flippers
Lesson plan
Warm-up
Students name the animals shown in the pictures and discuss which sea creature has the most legs.
Quiz: Sea Animal Facts
Students read ten facts about sea animals one at a time and decide whether each is true or false, learning the correct answer after each guess.
Starfish
Students look at a labelled picture of a starfish (arm/ray, mouth, eye spot, tube feet, spiny skin) and predict how a starfish eats without teeth.
Video: Starfish Eat Unlike Any Other Animal
Students watch a 0:59 video, paying close attention to how starfish eat.
Vocabulary
Students match target words (stomach, push, squeeze, mussel, clam, digest, blowhole, flippers) to pictures.
Reading: Gap Fill
Students fill in the blanks in a short text explaining how starfish push their stomach out of their body to digest food.
Sea Animal Profile
Students read profiles of three sea animals (starfish, sea turtle, dolphin) covering habitat, food, body, and special features, then choose one and write 4–5 sentences about it.
Image credit: photos by David Clone, Unsplash, used with permission.
