Term 1 Week 8

Kia Ora ākonga, 

This week we will finish off our food chains and food webs and move into hierarchy and how it benefits a population. 

Plan for the week is as follows: 

Session 1: Food webs yarn activity and creating our own food web

Session 2: Scavenger hunt in Tāne, Look at native plants and animal species in Aotearoa

Session 3: Hierarchy and competition within and between species 

PLAN & DO / WHAKAMAHI learning intentions:

• We are PLANNING to create our own food webs to apply our understanding of how different living things within an ecosystem interact with each other.
• We are PLANNING to prepare for our P.E and Science assessment by doing a scavenger hunt in Tāne
• We are PLANNING to demonstrate how hierarchy within a population can be beneficial by constructing our own ecosystem and justifying the 'chain of command'

Success Criteria: I can/have...

• Use clear definitions to distinguish between an organism, a  species, a population, acommunity and an ecosystem
• Define hierarchy and explain how it benefits a population
• Explain, using examples, how competition for resources can occur between species
• Explain, using examples, how competition for resources can occur within a species