Teaching
- Understand that habitats can be small and local but also very extensive (Yr1)..
- Consider what makes each creature perfectly adapted to their habitat and imagine what would happen if living things wandered into other habitats (lion in the ocean, for example) (Yr2).
- Create shoebox dioramas for plastic animal toys or laminated images of living things.
- Annotate the dioramas with researched information.
Activities
- Understand that habitats can be small and local but also very extensive.
- Understand that creatures are adapted for their own habitats.
- Consider a specific habitat and recreate it in a shoebox diorama.
Investigation - exploring, researching, analysing secondary sources
Create shoebox dioramas for plastic animal toys or laminated images of living things. Annotate the dioramas with researched information.
Year 1 - Understand that habitats can be small and local but also very extensive.
Year 2 - Consider what makes each creature perfectly adapted to their habitat and imagine what would happen if living things wandered into other habitats (lion in the ocean, for example).
Vocabulary
Food chain, predator, habitats, dependence, habitat, savannah, rainforest, tundra, micro-habitat, features