Learning objective
- To recall how animals get their food from plants and other animals.
Success criteria
- I can name a producer and place it
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National curriculum
Science
Living things and their habitats
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Cross-curricular links
None.
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Before the lesson
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Lesson plan
1: Lesson plan
An area for you to put useful resources from the previous lesson
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Adaptive teaching
Pupils needing extra support
Could use the Activity: Food chains (support) to group the living things according to whether they belong in a woodland or an ocean habitat. Once grouped, they could use the images to create two food chains on their desks, using a whiteboard pen to draw arrows between them to show what each animal is eaten by.
Pupils working at greater depth
Should add the labels producer, prey and predator to their folding food chains; could create an additional folding food chain for a coastal habitat which includes four living things, e.g. the algae is eaten by the shrimp is eaten by the crab is eaten by the seagull.
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Assessing progress and understanding
Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: naming living things that are producers
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Vocabulary definitions
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camouflage
Something difficult to see in its surroundings.
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depend
To need the help of something else to survive.
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