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Life in the freezer - adaptation

Topics Year 2/3

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Objectives

Geography

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

Science

  • Identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment and in different ways.

Lesson Planning

Investigate how arcticflora and fauna survive in such tough conditions and explore the living things in your own specialist Russian biome to discover how they are adapted to survive - share your discoveries through an adaptation fold-up.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To identify adaptations to climate and physical landscape found within a specific Russian biome.
  • To suggest plant and animal adaptations to a range of environments in Russian biomes.

Children will:

  • Create concept cartoons for specific animal adaptations
  • Make adaptation ‘fold-ups’ for a range of flora and fauna from their Russian biome

Provided Resources

  • About Adaptation
  • Questions for ‘King of the Tundra’
  • Animal and plant sets for all four Russian biomes
  • Fold-up example

You Will Need

  • Thick paper
  • Pens and pencils

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