Perfectly adapted

Additional Resources

• Access to the internet or printouts of web pages showing creatures and information on the various habitats or non-fiction books on habitats
• Backing sheets for the group collages - A3 or a little larger (1 per group)
• Backing sheets for animal collages (A4 or smaller)
• Collage materials: fabrics off cuts - earthy colours, felt, funky foam, a variety of coloured papers of different shades and textures
• PVA glue - one pot per table
• Several brushes or spreaders
• Paint, scissors, wax crayons, marker pens, string, twigs and shells
• Glue gun for heavier items
• Any other suitable collage materials

Teaching

• Understand that animals and plants are adapted to live in their own habitat.
• Classify habitat changes as natural or caused by humans.

Activities

1. Learn that living things are adapted to live in their habitat and describe some ways they do this (Yrs 3&4).
2. Discover that when habitats change, plants and animals can be in danger (Yrs 3&4).
3. Play a team game to classify habitat changes as either caused by nature or caused by humans (Yrs 3&4).
4. Create a habitat collage and describe it (Yr3) or a collage of an animal that lives there and describe how it is adapted (Yr4).

Investigation - classifying and identifying, analysing secondary sources
There are many different world habitats / biomes e.g. ocean, deserts, rain forest, grasslands, tundra, mountains, freshwater lakes each with its own specially adapted plants and creatures. Learn about adaptations to survive in different places. Research a world habitat or biome in groups. Work together in mixed age/ ability groups to create a collage of a world habitat/ biome to display at the H.H. Fair.
Year 3 - Write a fact about your habit to display beside it.
Year 4 - Write a few sentences to explain how an animal is adapted to your habitat.

Vocabulary
Habitat, ecosystem, adapted, adaptation, depend, survival, natural, manmade, changes