On Monday, we started our case study 2 on science. During our first lessons, we looked at a range of data about Svalbard and discussed what this told us about Svalbard. Some of the information was quite alarming as it shows the detrimental effect global warming is having on this country.
In our science lesson, we have learnt about food chains and looked at who eats who.
We learnt that at the start of the food chain it is called a producer, because it produces food.
The next animal is called a consumer, this is the first animal that eats the producer.
We were super at creating our food chains in the correct order of energy moving!
Today we were scientists and explored simple food chains.
We learnt the definition of words such as producer, consumer, predator and prey.
The children worked in collaborative groups to put together there food chains and explain how energy was transferred through the food chain. It provoked some really interesting conversations around energy and how consumers and prey have different roles within the food chain.
Today we were scientists and explored simple food chains.
We learnt the definition of words such as producer, consumer, predator and prey.
The children worked in collaborative groups to put together there food chains and explain how energy was transferred through the food chain.
This week, in Expedition, we have been looking at the habitats of animals and plants to continue with our Expedition work looking into the planet. We looked at what plants need and different diets of animals too! On Tuesday, Charlie and Ates held different types of animals including a snake! 🐍 and Tarantula 🕷️😮
Today KS1 had lots of special visitors. Lucan from Reptile Rendezvous brought in lots of different animals for us to learn about and we were even luck enough to hold and feed them too!
In expedition lessons, we have been looking at the difference between carnivore, ominvore and herbivore’s we looked at what they ate to be able to classify them into the groups and then applied it to our own venn diagram.
Today we were scientists and explored animal classification. We talked about how we can group animals by the food that they eat. We learnt that carnivores eat other animals and herbivores eat plants. Finally we learnt that omnivore eat both. We used our knowledge to complete another Venn diagram to show what we had learnt.
We began our lesson today by recapping habitats and then played a silent matching game to match the animals to their natural habitats. We then used our silent signals for agree and disagree to show our answers. This generated some fantastic discussions about how some animals had more than one habitat which we used later in the lesson.
We then used a Venn diagram to compare the different animals who lived in an urban habitat and a woodland habitat and discussed those such as foxes and hedgehogs which could live in both.
To finish our lesson and really challenge ourselves we tried to answer the question “Why wouldn’t you find a polar bear in the forest?”. Again this generated some good discussions and we used our previous knowledge of the basic needs to animals to help come up with a collaborative answer.
Great work everyone!
Over the last two days we have been looking at habitats – the 4 different habitats we have looked at are coastal, woodlands, urban, pond. We got given an animal and we had to stick them to the correct habitat.
