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Our environment

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

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Objectives

How has our local environment changed? Consider aspects of your school grounds that have changed and have a class debate about a hypothetical scenario that would bring about environmental change.

Science Objectives
i) How has our local environment changed? Consider aspects of your school grounds that have changed and have a class debate about a hypothetical scenario that would bring about environmental change.

Working Scientifically

  1. How has our local environment changed? Consider aspects of your school grounds that have changed and have a class debate about a hypothetical scenario that would bring about environmental change.

Other Curriculum Areas
English

  • Discuss what they are learning and to develop 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.

You Will Need

Provided Resources
Cameras to photograph the outside area, letter from school governors, good/bad evaluation sheets, teachers’ notes.

Additional Resources
Cameras to photograph the outside area, letter from school governors, good/bad evaluation sheets, teachers’ notes.

Lesson Planning

Teaching

  • Begin to consider how the local environment has changed and why these changes may have happened.

Activities

  1. Take a walk around their school environment.
  2. Consider how it might have changed.
  3. Begin to think about why the changes have happened.
  4. Take part in a class debate about a proposed change to an area in the school environment.

Investigation - exploring
Take a walk around their school environment and consider how and why changes have happened.

Vocabulary
 Environment, change, living thing, danger

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