Section outline


  • Learning intention: We are...
    • Recognising that living things are suited to their particular habitat.
    Success criteria: I can...
    • Name the basic layers of a forest
    • Describe the word habitat
    • Define the word organism
    • Draw and identify native species
    Activities:

    • Drawing and labelling the key layers of the New Zealand native forest
    • Describing key terms - habitat, organism, canopy, forest floor, understorey layer and the emergent layer
    • Identifying different organisms living in the layers and their habitatsPractical investigation: Studying 10 native trees - by feeling, touching and drawing, Google searching one key fact and the height they can grow to and finally identifying the forest layer the tree belongs.