Protecting food chains (Climate Change & Sustainability)
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can describe different ways to protect plants and animals to prevent threats to food chains.
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.
Teacher tip
There are lots of websites that have great advice on how to make small changes to improve biodiversity in the local area as well as ways of helping to protect different habitats that are further afield.
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?
Q6.If humans hunt foxes, what is the impact on living things within this food chain?
grass --> rabbit --> fox
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Humans should be encouraged to living things in their habitats.
Q2.What do we do when we protect something?
Q3.Some living things face the possibility that something unwanted or dangerous will happen. This is called ...
Q4.What will changing one thing in a food chain affect?
Q5.What can you do to find information on how to protect food chains in different habitats?
Q6.How can humans protect living things in a coastal habitat?
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