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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Before the lesson

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Lesson plan

1: Lesson plan

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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

  • camouflage

    Something difficult to see in its surroundings.

  • depend

    To need the help of something else to survive.

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