- Provide pupils with overwintering structures or photographs or video clips of these as stimulus material,
eg onion bulb, pupa, twig with buds, carrot, plastic bag of hair from a moulting pet. Ask pupils to suggest when they would normally be found and their function. Show videos of habitats at different times of the year and ask pupils to identify differences and describe the consequences of these for the organisms in the habitat. Ask pupils to describe from their own knowledge how plants in the school habitat change over the year and predict the likely effects of the changes on the animals in the locality.
- Provide pupils with key words and phrases,
eg migration, hibernation, overwintering of pupae, dormant structures, making food stores, thicker insulation, and ask pupils to use secondary sources to find out about these and how they help animals avoid climatic stress. Ask pupils to describe what they found out and help them to contribute to a summary sheet about seasonal changes.
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- identify ways in which habitats vary through the year
- describe some strategies which plants and animals adopt to avoid climatic stress
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