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Science at key stage 3    (Year 8)

Unit 8D: Ecological relationships
Section 9: How do plants, animals and environmental conditions interact in a habitat? c) Why do the communities differ in different habitats (2)

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Objectives
Children should learn:
  • to group sentences into paragraphs that are clearly focused and well developed

Activities

Outcomes
Children:
  • Ask pupils to write a report, including graphs of the data, about ways in which the two environments are different and encourage them to make associations between some of these conditions, eg in ponds, warm conditions and abundant plant growth can result in low oxygen levels, fast-flowing water in streams leads to cooler conditions.
  • produce a report comparing two environments, incorporating appropriate data and other information

Points to note
  • The term 'habitat' refers to a place; 'environment' refers to the surroundings. In this activity, pupils are comparing the environmental features of two habitats and are therefore comparing two environments. Pupil records of comparisons of environments could be combined into one piece of work.

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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