Section outline

  • Links to Holistic Report: Ako / Learning to Learn

    Ecosystems, Food Webs + Food Chains

    Activities:

    1. BrainPop -- Refresher video + quiz on the food webs (to assist with assessment)
    2. Field trip --  Tiritiri Matangi
    3. Assessment work 
    4. Hands-on activities -- Setting tracker tunnels around the school and making bird feeders

    Success Criteria: I can/have...

    • Attend Tiritiri Matangi and apply your understanding of adaptations and habitats to NZ native birds
    • Describe how changes in an ecosystem can affect the survival of living things (eg. disease, predation, habitat loss, etc.)
    • Set tracker tunnels and used keys to identify pests in the environment 
    • Built a bird feeder to increase the diversity of NZ birds in the area
    • Extension: Literacy activities in Google Classroom

    Key terms:

    • food web, food chain, predator, prey, competition, producer, primary consumer, secondary consumer, top predator, herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, extinction, endangered, energy

    PLAN & DO / WHAKAMAHI

    PLAN & DO / WHAKAMAHI learning intentions:

    • We are PLANNING... to build prototypes of bird feeds and traps to promote native bird diversity in Tāne forest