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Making a micro-habitat

Science Year 2
This unit is part of Year 2 Science Gardens and Allotments

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Objectives

Tend to the allotment and review the plant growth. Are there any mini-beasts the allotment habitat would benefit from? How will you attract them? Make micro-habitats to encourage them to live in the allotment.

Science Objectives
i) Identify that most living things live in habitats to which they are suited and describe how different habitats provide for the basic needs of different kinds of animals and plants, and how they depend on each other.

ii) Identify and name a variety of plants and animals in their habitats, including microhabitats.

iii) Describe how animals obtain their food from plants and other animals, using the idea of a simple food chain, and identify and name different sources of food.

Working Scientifically

  1. Ask simple questions and recognise that they can be answered in different ways.
  2. Observe closely, using simple equipment.
  3. Perform simple tests.
  4. Identify and classify.
  5. Use their observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions.
  6. Gather and record data to help answer questions.

Lesson Planning

Teaching

  • Observe living things in their habitat, consider why they are there and how they are surviving.
  • Review the allotment and consider if there are any other mini-beasts the allotment would benefit from and why. Consider how to create micro-habitats to encourage these mini-beasts.
  • Understand that different habitats provide for the basic needs of different kinds of mini-beasts and plants and that they depend on each other.
  • Plan and create micro-habitats with the right conditions to attract specific living things.

Activities

  1. Review and observe the allotment, looking for mini-beasts and making micro-habitats for them.
  2. Understand that different habitats provide for the basic needs of different kinds of mini-beasts and plants and that they depend on each other.

Investigation - exploring pattern seeking
Weed and tend to the allotment, understanding why the weeds need to be pulled out. Identify the weeds. Make flap pictures of the micro-habitat they have made and the mini-beast they hope it will attract.

Vocabulary
Growth, germination, planting, edible, mini-beasts, habitats

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