Lesson Planning

Explore the habitats specific to the Pacific Ocean and the Great Barrier Reef. Create food chains of the creatures living within the reef.

Teaching Outcomes
To make comparisons between the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean and analyse their similarities and differences; To use simple geographical vocabulary.
To analyse how important the food chain is for survival of a species; To explore the species at each stage of the Pacific Ocean food chain.

Children will:

• Gain knowledge of species’ food chains.
• Understand how species depend on each other for survival.
• Make comparisons to other known food chains including that of humans.