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The survival game

Topics Year 4/5

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Objectives

Science

  • Recognise that fossils provide information about living things that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago.
  • Identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution.

Lesson Planning

Investigate dinosaurs and their environments, understand how they would have competed for resources and take part in an animal survival game.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To learn that dinosaurs were integral to, and adapted to, their environments.

Children will:

  • Learn that dinosaurs were integral to, and adapted to, their environments.
  • Investigate what resources palaeontologists understand past ecosystems to have contained.
  • Understand how living things compete for resources by pretending to be animals competing for food and shelter.

You Will Need

  • Internet
  • Coloured cards (two colours)
  • Tape
  • Whistle

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