Learning objective

  • To recognise how animals and plants depend on each other.

Success criteria

  • I can name animals in a rainforest and

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National curriculum

Science

Living things and

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Before the lesson

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Lesson plan

Recap and recall

Hand out the Resource: Habitats – teach me, tell me cards (pre-cut, one question and answer strip per child). Explain to the pupils that they will teach each other all about habitats. Remind them of the following instructions: Walk around the room and find a partner. Read the question out and allow their partner to…

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Adaptive teaching

Pupils needing extra support

Could cut out the jigsaw pieces from the Activity: How do animals depend on each other? and stick them in the correct order in their exercise books; could cut and stick the pictures of the jaguar and iguana in their books and write labels to indicate if they eat animals or plants.

Pupils working at greater depth

Could write a paragraph describing how living things depend on each other in each habitat (ocean and rainforest); should be encouraged to consider how animals are adapted to survive in their habitat, i.e. a toucan has a long, pointy beak to reach for fruit at the end of tree branches.

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Assessing progress and understanding

Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: recalling that plants produce

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Vocabulary definitions

  • camouflage

    Something difficult to see in its surroundings.

  • depend

    To need the help of something else to survive.

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