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Year 4 Science

'Living Things and their Habitats'

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LESSON 1

Overview of lesson

  • Understand the principle and purpose of grouping

  • Understand the principle and purpose of a classification key
     

Resources provided

  • Vocabulary cards

  • Videoscribe: 'grouping'

  • Picture cards - selection of living things

  • Videoscribe: 'selection of living things in their groups'

  • Videoscribe: 'classification keys'

  • Sample classification key

  • Picture sheet - 10 living things to classify

LESSON 2

Overview of lesson

  • Develop a deeper understanding of the classification system

  • Explore the concept of external pressures on species survival
     

Resources provided

  • Vocabulary cards

  • Videoscribe: 'classification is like a computer'

  • Picture sheet - different orders of animal

  • Picture sheet - classification web

  • Videoscribe: 'classifying the prehistoric world'

  • Videoscribe: 'theories of dinosaur extinction'

LESSONS 3 & 4

Resources provided

  • Powerpoint: 'pages from a local habitat guide'

Overview of lesson

  • Demonstrate and record practical application of classification to living things in their local environment
     

Overview of lesson

  • Explore positive impacts and negative pressures on the environment and living organisms

LESSON 5

LESSON 6

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Resources provided

  • Vocabulary cards

  • Powerpoint: 'environments around the world'

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Overview of lesson

  • To explore the positive and negative impact of human activity in the wider world

Resources provided

  • Vocabulary cards

  • Powerpoint: 'man and his fellow animals'

  • Powerpoint: 'the Amazon village'

  • 'The Conservation Game' - available free to download from this website

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