You Will Need
Provided Resources
- PowerPoint presentation.
Additional Resources
- An environment that you are changing
- The final class plan from Session 5
- Tools/seeds/resources needed to make the changes
A positive impact!
Science Year 4
This unit is part of
Year 4 Science Help Our Habitats!
Objectives
Let’s make a positive change! Put your plans to redesign a particular area into action. Use this task to reflect on the types of actions you could take at home to improve the environment.
Science Objectives
i) Recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things.
Working Scientifically
- Use straightforward scientific evidence to answer questions or to support findings.
Other Curriculum Areas
English
- Discuss what they are learning and develop their wider skills in spoken language.
- Use language in a greater variety of situations, for a variety of audiences and purposes, including through drama, formal presentations and debate.
Extended Writing Opportunities
Information writing: Create an information poster about the impacts on living things if an environment changes. Explain on the poster what people can do to help.
Lesson Planning
Teaching
- Know that if an environment changes it can be dangerous to living things and to explain why.
Activities
- Know that changes to an environment can pose a danger to living things.
- Give examples of some changes that have been dangerous for the living things in that area.
- Put their positive plan for a local area into action.
- Be able to describe the changes they are making.
- Explain to others, which living things will benefit from the changes they are making.
Vocabulary
Danger, positive, change, danger, environment, living things