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Science Year 2
This unit is part of Year 2 Science Habitats

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Objectives

Research creatures in larger habitats and ask: why do these living things live there? Create dioramas of different habitats and label with research information.

Science Objectives
i) 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.

Working Scientifically

  1. Ask simple questions and recognise that they can be answered in different ways.
  2. Use their observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions.

Other Curriculum Areas
Design and Technology

  • Make: Select from and use a wide range of materials and components, including construction materials, textiles and ingredients, according to their characteristics.

Extended Writing Opportunities
Information text: Write information labels to go with your diorama based on your research information.

You Will Need

Provided Resources

  • Large habitats and small inhabitants resource
  • Habitat diorama ideas resource

Additional Resources

  • Shoe boxes and materials for habitat dioramas (for example: pipe cleaners, straws, tissue paper, felt)
  • Plastic animal toys
  • Devices and access to the Internet

Weblinks
Microhabitats from www.YouTube.com
BBC Bitesize: woodland habitats from www.bbc.co.uk

Lesson Planning

Teaching

  • Understand that habitats can be small and local but also very extensive.
  • Play 'Pin the Living Thing on the Habitat' using small images of familiar creatures and large images of habitats.
  • Consider what makes each creature perfectly adapted to their habitat and imagine what would happen if living things wandered into other habitats (lion in the ocean, for example).
  • Create shoebox dioramas for plastic animal toys or laminated images of living things.
  • Annotate the dioramas with researched information.

Activities

  1. Understand that habitats can be small and local but also very extensive.
  2. Understand that creatures are adapted for their own habitats.
  3. Research and consider a specific habitat and recreate it in a shoebox diorama.

Investigation - researching and analysing secondary sources
Create shoebox dioramas for plastic animal toys or laminated images of living things.
Annotate the dioramas with researched information.

Vocabulary
Habitat, savannah, rainforest, tundra, microhabitat, features

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