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Science topics ages 8 - 9
Habitats
Curriculum relevance | Online lesson plan
Offline lesson plan |
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Quiz
Online lesson plan
Objectives
Know that different plants and animals are found in different habitats
To use food chains to show feeding relationships in a habitat
Know that nearly all food chains start with a green plant
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National Curriculum
England: Key Stage 2, Sc2, 5b, 5d, 5e
Wales: Key Stage 2, Life processes and living things, 4.1, 4.3, 4.4
Northern Ireland: Key Stage 2, Living things, Animals and plants e, i
Scotland: 5-14 Guidelines, Science, Interaction of living things with their
environment, Levels A, B
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Resources required
Online activity from Science Clips website: Habitats
Pictures of environment and living things including, where possible, oak tree,
caterpillar, thrush, tawny owl, algae, mayfly nymph, water spider, frog
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Teaching activities
Introduction
Can the children name different local environments? Write the list on display
such as on an interactive whiteboard, ensuring woodland and pond are included.
Can the children name a range of plants and animals that live in these
environments? Write these on display. Focus on the woodland and pond habitats,
explaining the differences. Hold up the pictures of living things and ask
children to sort them into each habitat, giving reasons.
Discuss the terms producer, first consumer, second consumer, prey,
predator.
Write these terms into a food chain on the interactive whiteboard. Explain
that the arrows in a food chain stand for ‘is eaten by’. Can
children identify an organism that fits under each heading?
Activities
Divide the class into small groups, each with a computer. Ask each group to
bring up the Habitats online activity. Ask each group to find all the living
things in the scene and then to click the Sorter buttons to arrange the living
things they have found in food chains. Ask the groups to think on how the
living things found in the Woodland habitat are different to those found in the
Pond habitat? Why are they different (they have adapted to the environment over
time)?
Plenary
What is the producer in the woodland habitat? What is the producer in the pond
habitat? Repeat this questioning for each food chain term.
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Extension
Research related food chains (an organism that has been studied that is eaten
by another organism in a different food chain). Interlink these to form a food
web, represented in pictures or labels linked by drawn lines.
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Suggested homework
Ask the children to research endangered animals and the reasons for their
predicament. This will provide a point for discussion on the conservation of
habitats and the impact of humans on the environments of particular creatures.
Why are only certain organisms affected?
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