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What lives in the Pacific Ocean?

Topics Reception/Year 1
This unit is part of Oceans and Seas Pacific Underwater World

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Objectives

Geography

  • Develop contextual knowledge of the location of globally significant places, both terrestrial and marine.
  • Use basic geographical vocabulary to refer to key physical features, including sea, ocean and other geographical vocabulary.

Science

  • Identify that most living things live in habitats to which they are suited and describe how different habitats provide for the basic needs of different kinds of animals and plants, and how they depend on each other.
  • Identify and name a variety of plants and animals in their habitats, including microhabitats.
  • Describe how animals obtain their food from plants and other animals, using the idea of a simple food chain, and identify and name different sources of food.

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.

Provided Resources

  • Marine food chains presentation
  • Pacific food chain images
  • Pacific ocean food chain template
  • Example Pacific ocean food chain

You Will Need

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