Unit 6A: Interdependence and adaptation Section 5: Interdependence of plants and animals
Objectives
Children should learn:
that animals and plants in a local habitat are interdependent
how animals and plants in a local habitat are suited to their environment
Activities
Outcomes
Children:
Ask children what they remember from previous work about the feeding of animals and plants and ask them to suggest other reasons why animals need the plants and why plants might need the animals. Help children to use their own knowledge and observations and secondary sources to make an information card about an animal or plant in the local habitat.
identify ways in which the animals depend on plants eg for food, shelter, shade and ways in which the plants need animals eg provide fertiliser for the soil, help to disperse seeds
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