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Science at key stage 3    (Year 7)

Unit 7C: Environment and feeding relationships
Section 5: Checking progress

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Objectives
Children should learn:
  • to summarise and make connections between key ideas about adaptation to a habitat

Activities

Outcomes
Children:
  • Provide pupils with a list of adaptive animal and plant characteristics and ask them to decide on the six most important for a particular habitat. Ask them to explain their choices and ask others to evaluate these critically, identifying the advantages the adaptation gives the organism. Help pupils to use the results of the work to make generalisations about adaptation.
  • identify adaptations for particular habitats
  • explain the advantages adaptations give an organism

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1. How does the environment influence the animals and plants living in a habitat?
2. a. How do environments vary?
3. b. How do environments vary?
4. c. How do environments vary?
5. Checking progress
6. a. What is a feeding relationship?
7. b. What is a feeding relationship?
8. a. What do food webs tell us?
9. b. What do food webs tell us?
10. c. What do food webs tell us?
11. Reviewing work