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Science Year 4
This unit is part of Year 4 Science Help Our Habitats!

Objectives

Who made these changes? Consider natural and man-made changes to the environment. How living things adapt to these changes? Can you design a living thing that could survive all these natural environment changes?

Science Objectives
i) Recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things.

Working Scientifically

  1. Ask relevant questions and use different types of scientific enquiries to answer them.

You Will Need

Provided Resources

  • Independent task sheet
  • Adaptation PowerPoint

Lesson Planning

Teaching

  • Consider some of the natural changes that could happen to an environment and to understand what some living things can do to survive such changes.

Activities

  1. Think about regular changes such as tides and seasons.
  2. Consider if the changes are natural or man-made.
  3. Design a living thing that could withstand a huge range of changes to their environment.
  4. Begin to think about some big changes such as climate change.

Investigation - exploring
Consider natural and manmade changes to the environment.

Vocabulary
Change, adapt, danger, threat