Section outline

  • Links to Holistic Report: Ako / Learning to Learn

    Activities:

    1. Exploring ecosystem (in-class slides with activities in Google Classroom) -- habitats, communities, adaptations to survive in different habitats
    2. Digital components -- Habitats video clip (see below)
    3. Lab activities -- making scientific observations of animal features (feathers, scales)
    4. At home activities -- making scientific observations of your pet (5 min per day)

    Success Criteria: I can/have...

    • Identify and compare habitats and explain, with examples, some animal adaptations
    • Describe how changes in an ecosystem can affect the survival of living things
    • Make and record scientific observations (written or digital) using your senses 
    • Use new scientific tools to help collect detailed observations 

    Key terms:

    • habitat, ecosystem, adaptation, community, population, abiotic, biotic, nocturnal

    EXPLORE / TŪHURA

    EXPLORE / TŪHURA learning intentions:

    • We are EXPLORING...how scientists observe and collect scientific observations to discover new information or as a way to answer their questions about the world
    • We are EXPLORING...how animals are suited to their particular habitat by researching and investigating their features