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Extreme survival

Science Year 6
This unit is part of Year 6 Science The Game of Survival

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Objectives

Play ‘survivor’ to see which creatures will survive in a range of environments and biomes. Can you score more survival points through your own living thing ‘survivor’ designs?

Science Objectives
i) Identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution.

Working Scientifically

  1. Report and present findings from enquiries, including conclusions, causal relationships and explanations of and degree of trust in results, in oral and written forms such as displays and other presentations.
  2. Identify scientific evidence that has been used to support or refute ideas or arguments.

Other Curriculum Areas
Geography

  • Describe and understand key aspects of physical geography, including: climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts, rivers, mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes.

Lesson Planning

Teaching

  • Suggest how some animals and plants are adapted to extreme environments.
  • Design an animal and a plant that should thrive and survive in a given environment.
  • Understand the implications of key physical aspects of an environment for living things.

Activities

  1. Play ‘Extreme Survivor’ to see which creatures and plants survive in given environments.
  2. Suggest how animals and plants are adapted to extreme environments.
  3. Design an animal and a plant that should thrive and survive in a given environment.

Investigation - pattern seeking, exploring
Identify features that support survival in a given environment.

Vocabulary
Evolution, suited/suitable, environment, adapted/adaptation, characteristics, vary/variation

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