Protecting food chains (Climate Change & Sustainability)
I can describe different ways to protect plants and animals to prevent threats to food chains.
- Year 4
Protecting food chains (Climate Change & Sustainability)
I can describe different ways to protect plants and animals to prevent threats to food chains.
Lesson details
Key learning points
- A change to one living thing can affect other living things in the same food chain.
- Humans should be encouraged to behave in ways that help to protect plants and animals in their habitats.
- Information about protecting food chains can be researched using secondary sources of information.
Keywords
Habitat - The place where a plant or animal lives is called its habitat.
Threat - A threat is the possibility that something unwanted or dangerous will happen.
Impact - The impact of something is the effect it has.
Protect - To protect something is to keep it safe from harm.
Secondary sources - Secondary sources are texts, images or objects created using information gathered by others.
Common misconception
Some pupils may think that human actions can have an impact on animals and plants but that these actions do not affect food chains.
Explanation of different ways in which humans can protect plants and animals in their habitats.
Equipment
Access to secondary sources such as books about different habitats and the internet.
Content guidance
- Depiction or discussion of violence or suffering
Supervision
Adult supervision required
Licence
Lesson video
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Which of these living things is a producer?
Q2.Which of these living things is a consumer?
Q3.All food chains start with a .
Q4.What do the arrows in a food chain mean?
Q5.If humans use a pesticide to get rid of the aphids, what is the impact on living things within this food chain?
