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Science at key stage 3    (Year 8)

Unit 8D: Ecological relationships
Section 2: How can animals be classified? (2)

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Objectives
Children should learn:
  • that animals can be divided into vertebrates and invertebrates and that these groups can be further subdivided

Activities

Outcomes
Children:
  • Remind pupils of the work they did in year 7 on classification and using, eg photographs, ICT resources, as stimulus material, establish that it is helpful to classify organisms into plants and animals and that animals can be subdivided into vertebrates and invertebrates.
  • describe differences between vertebrates and invertebrates
  • name some groups of invertebrate and give examples of these

Points to note
  • The number of vertebrate and invertebrate groups introduced is likely to depend on the habitats to be investigated in the next part of the unit. At this stage it is not necessary for pupils to distinguish between levels of subgroup, eg phylum, class.
  • In unit 7D 'Variation and classification' pupils consider the classification of animals.

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1. How can animals be classified? (1)
2. How can animals be classified? (2)
3. How can green plants be classified?
4. How do plants, animals and environmental conditions interact in a habitat? a) How can we collect data to answer questions about a habitat? (1)
5. How do plants, animals and environmental conditions interact in a habitat? a) How can we collect data to answer questions about a habitat? (2)
6. How do plants, animals and environmental conditions interact in a habitat? b) What lives there? (1)
7. How do plants, animals and environmental conditions interact in a habitat? b) What lives there? (2)
8. How do plants, animals and environmental conditions interact in a habitat? c) Why do the communities differ in different habitats? (1)
9. How do plants, animals and environmental conditions interact in a habitat? c) Why do the communities differ in different habitats (2)
10. How do plants, animals and environmental conditions interact in a habitat? c) Why do the communities differ in different habitats? (3)
11. How do plants, animals and environmental conditions interact in a habitat? d) How big are the populations in the habitat? (1)
12. How do plants, animals and environmental conditions interact in a habitat? d) How big are the populations in the habitat? (2)
13. How do living things in a community depend on each other? (1)
14. How do living things in a community depend on each other? (2)
15. Reviewing work