Term 2 Week 7

Context: 

* Catch-up week continues for some students

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.
• (Science Fair) We are FOCUSING on action planning [Science Fair Action- PART 2] to develop an aspiring and purposeful action for our science fair topic.

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
• use Q-Chart to generate critical questions relating to their science fair topic
• identify the key concepts from which their critical questions stem from
• project and finalise an action plan for their science fair topic

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.
4. Science Fair Planning Template [PART 2: Action]