Section outline

  • Context: 


    * Due to the Covid-19 Alert (Level 2), classes remain active via distant learning online.  The most important aim is to ensure students stay safe and calm and still experience some level of normality during this period of nationally enforced self-isolation.

    * Using Google Meet  as our online lesson platform; instructions have been given to students so the new format of routine and expectations can be established.

    * Catch-up week continues for some students

    FOCUS / ARONGA

    FOCUS / ARONGA learning intentions:

    • We are FOCUSING on ecology so as to develop a good understanding of ecosystems, biomes and adaptations.
    • We are FOCUSING on food chain in order to identify the producers and consumers of an ecosystem and their survival relationship.
    • We are FOCUSING on the food chain and population growth so that we learn how to read and understand the food web, population graph, and biomass pyramid.


    Success Criteria: (Students can...)

    • identify different ecosystems and biomes, including the adaptation features of different species
    • describe the role of producers and consumers in the food chain
    • explain the population growth and how the population graph reads
    • use a food web diagram to clearly illustrate the species relationship in a food chain
    • use a pyramid of number to show the trophic level of a food chain


    Activities & Learning Tasks:

    1. Education Perfect task to learn more about the New Zealand ecology.
    2. SciPad online workbook tasks (under Ecology): Ecology
    3. Revision Slides to answer key learning points.